Imbolc is a celebration referenced in one tenth-century legend (The Wooing of Emir), and in Cormac’s Glossary, a ninth-century manuscript containing explanations and glosses of about 14,000 Irish words.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2026
Gersting also thought that copper, the color that ruled last fall, will continue its reign, as will low-maintenance glosses.
Many of them supplement the text with photographs, epigraphs, glossaries, family trees, sketches, timelines, variant tables of contents, alternating fonts and notes to the reader.
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Christopher Coffman,
The Conversation,
24 Aug. 2026
Regulations forced enterprises to spend massive amounts of capital and resources mapping out technical metadata, business glossaries, taxonomies, ontologies and data lineage.
Yet a 2023 Stanford study said that Pangram was biased against non-native English speakers, who might have more limited vocabularies, and many AI researchers contend that such detectors are unreliable.
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Cameron Pugh,
Christian Science Monitor,
12 Aug. 2026
Chinese law schools have accordingly placed greater weight on teaching Chinese students to argue using the vocabularies of foreign legal systems.
Several dictionaries also partake in the annual tradition of choosing a single word to represent the cultural moment.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
22 Oct. 2026
Performed by legends Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, the silly song is a tongue-twister for kiddos, and the titular word, which means ‘extraordinarily good, wonderful’ even made its way into some real deal dictionaries.
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