Here’s a breakdown of six iPhone Air features defining Apple’s thinnest iPhone, from its titanium design to performance, ...

If you had to define 2021 with just one word what would it be? Merriam-Webster Editor-at-Large Peter Sokolowski talks about what words were most on people's minds throughout the year. If you had to ...

Years ago, my dad gave me a book: Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead But Gutsy Girls Do. While there’s nothing wrong with being assertive, I disagree with the book’s premise that “good” people can’t get ...

As I was preparing to go onstage for an event recently, the moderator warned my co-panelist and me that the very first prompt would be “Please define the word woke for the audience.” We all sighed and ...

Asking a biologist to define 'life' is a bit like looking-up the word 'definition' in a dictionary — it's as if you're questioning their very existence. Biologists like myself don't agree on what life ...

The name for a family of commercial chemicals usually provides a fairly clear idea of the related compounds within it. An example is organophosphate pesticides. Another is brominated flame retardants.

Merriam-Webster, the venerable dictionary publisher, announced last week that it would update its definition of the word “racism” in response to a request by a 22-year-old woman from Missouri. But ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Imagine that it is your job to explain what everyone else means when they use certain words, whether the term in question is escalator or nationalism. That is the task of the lexicographer, the human ...

The crisis across America’s campuses is causing some controversy over the current definition of antisemitism, as written by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. It’s a definition which ...

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