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Learn about the origins and meanings of words like 'widow', 'spinster', 'debut', and 'put your thumb on the scale'.

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Thirteen-year-old Faizan Zaki from Plano, Texas, won the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night with the ...

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Roberge once estimated the total cost for Quebec retailers to comply would range from $7 million to $15 million. That ...

As the great philosopher David Burge once intoned, “Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough ...

“We need to overcome, I think, the stink,” said Stewart in the latest episode of his “Weekly Show” podcast. Stewart added that there should be “excitement, not trepidation” around how the Democratic ...