Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

Implement a Java program to determine the order of characters in an alien language, given a sorted dictionary of alien words. This is a graph + topological sorting problem. You are given a list of ...

Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including ...

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The increasing use of TikTok trends and social media terms in everyday conversation has led Cambridge Dictionary to include “skibidi,” “delulu” and “tradwife” in the 6,000 new words it has added to ...

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I'd like to add dictionary encoded values to the Avro adapter and get them working for a full round trip with both schema and data. I'm doing some (unrelated) work on dictionary encoded values atm so ...

Can Java give Python a run for its money in the burgeoning, trendy AI space? While Python still gets top billing when it comes to developing for AI, Java proponents see the nearly 30-year-old Java ...

No matter how long you've been reading, no matter how vast your vocabulary is, you'll always find words you just don't know from time to time. The Mac's built-in Dictionary app makes those moments ...