As the police-custody death in the spring of 2020 of a Black man named George Floyd sparked a national reckoning over police brutality, the American dictionary Merriam-Webster also reconsidered its ...

Merriam-Webster is giving its dictionary another “glow-up,” adding 1,400 words and definitions.

Merriam-Webster is "wordmaxxing," with more than a thousand new words and definitions added to its dictionary.

If such words cause anxiety, some relief may be found in dawn chorus: "the singing of wild birds that closely precedes and follows sunrise especially in spring and summer." "Some of these words will ...