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Lexicon Growth: Merriam-Webster Adds 1,400 New Words, From Trash Panda to Cuffing Season

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Lexicon Growth: Merriam-Webster Adds 1,400 New Words, From Trash Panda to Cuffing Season
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Merriam-Webster has expanded its lexicon with 1,400 new words, reflecting current usage—from slang like glow-up, looksmaxxing, and trash panda to terms such as cuffing season, Mandela effect, and California sober, plus culinary words like bao and superfood.

Topics:entertainmentlanguage#cuffing-season#dictionary#language#neologisms#slang#trash-panda
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  1. Merriam-Webster dictionary adds 1,400 words, including trash panda  BBC
  2. Merriam-Webster adds 1,400 new words and definitions to dictionary website  WWLP
  3. Merriam-Webster Dictionary Is Wordsmaxxing With 1,400 New Definitions  The New York Times
  4. 'Looksmaxxing' to 'Cuffing Season': Merriam-Webster Adds 1.4K Words  Newser
  5. Merriam-Webster gives its dictionary a ‘glow-up’ with 1,400 new words and definitions  nbcnews.com

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