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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Addressing Our Weaknesses
Hi, I’m Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD., editor and compiler of Roget’s New Millenium Thesaurus. The synonym “weaker sex” appears in many thesauruses for terms like woman, lady, and female. It is considered an informal, possibly derogatory, synonym for those words. Due to the way our search technology works, a search for weaker appeared to […]
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Catching Up
Have you heard the news? Audio pronunciations are now free on Dictionary.com. Look up a word and click on the speaker icon to hear how to say it.
Illustrations are free now too.
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Sorry it took us so long to get back to you. When faced with a challenging […]