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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Adds More Than 500 New Words, Phrases, and Senses, Including Hidden Gem, Tumbleweed, Origin Story, and Al Desko (September 2025 Update)

From OED/Oxford University Press:The autumn is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere. We’re back at work after the summer break, the new school year has begun, and we’re once more getting up early, or at crack of sparrow’s song (or, more humorously, crack of sparrow’s fart,or simply crack of sparrow’s) to get ready for the day. ‘What fresh hell is this?’ we hear you cry as you wrap up warm because it’s nobbling (a We
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