In his 1578 book, mathematician and Navy gunner William Bourne wrote that “to make a ship to draw or go but little into the ...

to have this project, which was first approved by God, checked. the Testament that Christians label Old: this the name of ...

American consumers will feel the heat of tariffs sooner or later. Destruction is the only victor in a war. Trade wars are no ...

According to Urban Dictionary, "gagged" means "to be amazed or stunned by someone or a situation of some kind." The site says the term is also "often used within the LGBT community and the ballroom ...

Have you ever heard someone tell a tired old joke, only for someone else to dismiss it as an “old chestnut”? Jokes aren’t the only thing to get labeled this way. Everything from well-trodden movie ...

In January 2022, Wardle sold Wordle to The New York Times for an undisclosed seven-figure sum, though the game remained free ...

Sure, American lexicographer Noah Webster rejected spellings such ... some authoritative British sources including The Oxford English Dictionary. The Age newspaper used -or spellings in words ...

The crowd roared, stymieing the opening words of an awkward statesman from Georgia who stood before the Democratic National ...

Created by Josh Wardle, a software engineer, Wordle was initially a personal project for his partner, but it was released ...

There’s no shortage of anger and meanness in the world these days. Sometimes it feels as though we’re mad at each other about absolutely everything. It’ll take some hard conversations and complex ...

“Polarization” is the choice of Merriam-Webster Dictionaries, clearly understood when looking at politics in 2024. And I have to close with Collins Dictionary’s pick – “brat.” We did ...

Alex Harring and Yun Li, “S&P 500 Slides on Friday as Rally Pauses, But Stocks Notch Back-to-Back Weekly Gains,” January 24, ...