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14 Dec 2011, 11:26 pm by Collection Development Librarian
It also features audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search and Dictionary.com’s popular Word of the Day and Hot Word blog. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 3:41 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Fast Company: “Dictionary.com has announced that it has added over 300 new words and terms to its online offerings. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 3:28 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
’ “Misinformation”, as opposed to disinformation, is Dictionary.com’s word of the year. [read post]
6 Dec 2021, 3:16 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Dictionary.com: “2021 was a year defined by the many ongoing impacts of the pandemic and the polarization of 2020—and the various ways we continue to grapple with them. [read post]
12 Dec 2023, 8:22 am
"Instead, Dictionary.com is highlighting the word’s increased usage among users and critics of artificial intelligence (AI) programs, who have adopted the term to describe the inaccurate and often outlandish outputs that chatbots and other prompt-based AI programs attempt to present as fact.... [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 7:52 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
cnet: “Dictionary.com added more than 300 new words and phrases on Wednesday, including a few tech-related entries like “textlationship” (when people text a lot but don’t really interact in person) and “keyboard warrior” (someone who shares opinionated content online in an aggressive or abusive way, typically without revealing who they are)…” [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 3:42 pm
Link: Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Dictionary.com Shows the Rational Side of the Internet. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 3:55 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Dictionary.com: “…existential also inspires us to ask big questions about who we are and what our purpose is in the face of our various challenges—and it reminds us that we can make choices about our lives in how we answer those questions. [read post]
31 Mar 2022, 6:39 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Mashable: “Dictionary.com‘s latest batch of updates just dropped, and they cover a wide range of timely social and cultural topics, including accessibility, homelessness, and the global climate crisis. [read post]
11 Mar 2021, 3:33 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Mashable – “Dictionary.com announced its latest language updates as we reach the one year anniversary of our communal COVID-19 lockdown. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 3:46 pm by Commentary:
Lexico, the online collaboration between Dictionary.com and Oxford University Press, defines “legalese” as “the formal and technical language of legal documents that is often hard to understand. [read post]
11 Jan 2007, 2:25 pm
According to dictionary.com surplus is "an amount, quantity, etc., greater than needed. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 11:13 am by Robert Ambrogi
Recently, after reading that Dictionary.com had announced “complicit” as its word of the year for 2017, a friend asked what I considered to be the legal technology word of the year. [read post]
24 Jan 2007, 7:44 am
Exorbitant - from Dictionary.com: exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety, or reason, esp. in amount or extent; highly excessive: to charge an exorbitant price; exorbitant luxury...yep, that's the right word. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 1:15 pm by Eileen McDermott
The Court affirmed the United States District Court for the Northern District of California’s finding that the lawsuits against Amazon and its customers—Patreon, Vox Media, Dictionary.com, Vice Media, Oath,... [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 6:40 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Talking about a California suit against Apple and others including makers of popular apps such as Textplus4, Paper Toss, Weather Channel, Dictionary.com, Talking Tom Cat and Pumpkin Maker , a CNBC story ends:The Unique Device ID that Apple assigns to its devices has become an attractive feature for third-party advertisers looking for a way to reliably track mobile device users' online activities, one of the lawsuits said. [read post]
20 Jul 2008, 5:48 am
Dictionary.com Definition: (Here)a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.the object of such devotion.a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.Sociology. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.a religion or sect considered… [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 2:42 am
Vapourware [vaporware] is, according to  dictionary.com: “Computer Slang. a product, esp. software, that is promoted or marketed while it is still in development and that may never be produced. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 3:19 pm by Bryan Fears
  Apple, along with the makers of popular applications such as Textplus4, Paper Toss, Weather Channel, Dictionary.com, Talking Tom Cat and Pumpkin Maker, has been accused of passing personal user information to third parties without the knowledge or consent of its customers. [read post]