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“True Color” is also a vivid account of the nearly Sisyphean task of compiling a dictionary for a living language.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

In the early 1900s, defining color in the dictionary required the expertise of a scientist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

The Larousse dictionary for 11- to 15-year-old students contained the same phrase as that discovered by an anti-racism body in three revision books, the company told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

He was reading an Italian-English dictionary and had the same huge eyes as the boy.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis