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the South African immigrant Elon Musk, who has used it himself with his usual lack of inhibition. But they should both cut it out lest they empty the word of any meaning.

Real Madrid Remontada: What does it mean and why it's the word on everyone's mind ahead of Champions League Real Madrid will attempt to come back from a 3-0 deficit in the first leg of the ...

Formerly Collins defined “brat” as “someone, especially a child”, who “behaves badly or annoys you” but it has been selected as word of the year because of its new definition ...

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By mapping the overlapping sets of brain cells that respond to various words, he says, “we can try to start building a thesaurus of meaning”. The work was published today in Nature.

The meaning of the word "bot" on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally using it to flag automated accounts, but now employing it to insult people they disagree with.

Before it reminded us of the glory days, nostalgia was a medical condition involving severe homesickness. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed ...