NEW words and meanings added: September 2024
Soba or sober curious?
We’ve added a whole range of new words and meanings to the dictionary, from AFAB to zoomer.
Generative AI gives us new meanings for prompt, hallucinate and hallucination.
A major theme this time is health and medicine. Regular health screenings can help us to maximize our healthspan. Have you ever experienced brain fog? Or maybe you were the victim of a superspreader event and had to isolate?
These are just some of around 175 new words and meanings added.
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A recent addition to our online dictionary is the term culture war, which is used to describe the conflict between groups of people with different ideals and beliefs.
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