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  2. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Principal is an adjective meaning "main" (though it can also be a noun meaning the head of a college or similar institution). Principle is a noun meaning a fundamental belief or rule of action. Standard: The principal achievement of the nineteenth century is the rise of industry. Standard: He got sent to the principal's office for talking ...

  3. Deprecation - Wikipedia

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    Deprecation is the discouragement of use of something human-made, such as a term, feature, design, or practice.Typically something is deprecated because it is claimed to be inferior compared to other options available.

  4. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus.

  5. NYT ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers Today, Friday, January 17

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    Synonyms for a popular food. 2. To make contact with something (usually with force). 3. These help you navigate/explore the internet. 4. The last part of these words is related to popular brands ...

  6. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for Friday ...

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    Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...

  7. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  8. Trump signs order to block federal support for minors’ gender ...

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    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to end federal support for medical procedures aimed at altering sex or gender that involve surgical interventions or the use of puberty ...

  9. List of English words with disputed usage - Wikipedia

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    Curiously, this oldest seventeenth-century meaning (inclined to nausea), while distinct from the disputed twentieth-century usage (afflicted by nausea), more closely resembles the latter than it does the prescribed meaning (causing nausea). Undisputed usage: That smell is nauseous. Disputed usage: That smell is making me nauseous.