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NEW words and meanings added: September 2024

Soba or sober curious ?

We’ve added a whole range of new words and meanings to the dictionary, from AFAB to zoomer .

Generative AI gives us new meanings for prompt , hallucinate and hallucination .

A major theme this time is health and medicine. Regular health screenings can help us to maximize our healthspan . Have you ever experienced brain fog ? Or maybe you were the victim of a superspreader event and had to isolate ?

These are just some of around 175 new words and meanings added.

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A recent addition to our online dictionary is the term culture war , which is used to describe the conflict between groups of people with different ideals and beliefs.

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