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.
Most dictionaries do not even list the meaning—’to kill’—that the government now proposes.
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David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
27 July 2026
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,
2 July 2026
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