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Today, Americanisms are easy for modern lexicographers to find because of the internet and access to large data sets.
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Sarah Ogilvie, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
Swan had written and was shopping a screenplay, The Saint and the Scoundrel, about Samuel Johnson, the English lexicographer who published A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755 and suffered from Tourette syndrome.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
Last summer, a team of linguists and lexicographers from Oxford and researchers from Harvard began a new project, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
—Alex Carp, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Some linguists and lexicographers agree that African American language and culture deserves its own dictionary.
—Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 11 June 2023
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Sarah Ogilvie, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
Swan had written and was shopping a screenplay, The Saint and the Scoundrel, about Samuel Johnson, the English lexicographer who published A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755 and suffered from Tourette syndrome.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
Last summer, a team of linguists and lexicographers from Oxford and researchers from Harvard began a new project, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
—Alex Carp, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Some linguists and lexicographers agree that African American language and culture deserves its own dictionary.
—Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 11 June 2023
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To an extent, prior work by linguists is now being broken down and fed to LLMs via new methods.Ross Perlin, The Dial, 14 Nov. 2024
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It was developed by a team of over 100 expert linguists.New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2024
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His career in hockey media — as a journalist, editor and author — has included stops at Canucks Army, The Score, Triumph Publishing, the Nation Network and Sportsnet.Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
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Vogue editors too, have their own individual favorites, tried-and-true cult finds and iconic red shades for every occasion.Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2024
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One of Larsen’s biographers, George Hutchinson, uncovered a passenger manifest that recorded Larsen’s travel from Denmark, and a Danish genealogist, Shari Jensen, discovered that Larsen’s relatives lived in Copenhagen at the same address as the relatives of the fictional Helga.Ethelene Whitmire, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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Royal biographer Ingrid Seward tells PEOPLE that Andrew will have also spoken things over with his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who are protective and loyal towards him.Janine Henni, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Try your hand at drawing a model, whether your a pro or a scribbler.Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
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We should be concerned not just for our personal pocketbooks but for the state of our art—and the current moment calls for dreamers, strummers, and scribblers to be unusually thoughtful, tactical, and shrewd.Sean Michaels, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023
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