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Re:An update of 455 new words by TeeMassive on Thursday October 28, 2021 @08:16PM (#29033768)
As people pointed out here, a lot of these definitions aren't correct or are logically self-contradictory (e.g. an air fryer being an airtight device).

Personally I do not trust MW since they were caught editing definition of words for political purposes (e.g. 'sexual preference', see https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/merriam-webster-barrett-se...). That just reeks of amateurism.

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Re:An update of 455 new words by unraveller on Friday October 29, 2021 @11:44PM (#29045817)
online dictionary: a rolling publication with increasingly vague definitions of words, any of which their allies can quickly claim sound use of to evade scrutiny or scorn. see also fact checkers.

It would take an offline only dictionary, interested in generational reputation, to care more about precision than being a tool for the political scrubbing of history.

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