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Example Sentences

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She said unique vocabulary can become part of your personal dictionary, an invisible file that logs your typing behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Users can improve autocorrect by resetting the keyboard dictionary, creating text replacements and adding proper nouns to Contacts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

As Philip Ball, who wrote How Life Works, puts it, looking to genes to explain who you are is like staring at the dictionary hoping to understand literature.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026

What's a megastar to do when she has defined an entire summer, produced a multi-million-selling album and even persuaded the dictionary eggheads to declare "brat" a word of the year?

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

I have found that the dictionary doesn’t always explain everything.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na