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Christmas hams, party cocktails, elegant layer cakes, and cookout classics fill the dictionaries of Southern family recipes, but one of my favorites is a simple vinaigrette from my grandmother.
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Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 21 June 2025
Most players use the CSW (Collins Scrabble Words) dictionary, which accepts both U.S. and U.K. English spellings and is more generous with two-letter words than most dictionaries.
—Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
Then came a sort of spiritual attack that was supposed to nearly erase these two words from the dictionary and relegate them to the archive where old words and concepts lie and rot, dead and forgotten.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Jacques Bailly took a razor blade to the dictionary in 1991, revolutionizing the mechanics of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 26 May 2025
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Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 21 June 2025
Most players use the CSW (Collins Scrabble Words) dictionary, which accepts both U.S. and U.K. English spellings and is more generous with two-letter words than most dictionaries.
—Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
Then came a sort of spiritual attack that was supposed to nearly erase these two words from the dictionary and relegate them to the archive where old words and concepts lie and rot, dead and forgotten.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Jacques Bailly took a razor blade to the dictionary in 1991, revolutionizing the mechanics of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 26 May 2025
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At the second evening of our concert series at the Caesars Superdome, quite a few musical titans arrived in stylish ensembles that pushed them further into the fashion lexicon.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
6 July 2025
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2 July 2025
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“Dictionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictionary. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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