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President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at Yokota Air Base | November 5, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

'Populism' revealed as 2017 Word of the Year by Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Press

30 Nov 2017

̽»¨Ö±²¥word 'populism' has been announced as the Cambridge Dictionary 2017 Word of the Year.

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Crossword

AI crossword-solving application could make machines better at understanding language

07 Mar 2016

A web-based machine language system solves crossword puzzles far better than commercially-available products, and may help machines better understand...

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Words for mud and mountain, wind and wetland: answers on a postcard, please

01 Apr 2015

‘Dumberdash’ is an old Cheshire term for a short but violent storm. A ‘lumpenhole’ is a deep trench for fluid farmyard waste. ̽»¨Ö±²¥man who remembers...

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Quilt by Sara Impey titled Context, made in silk

̽»¨Ö±²¥needle and the pen

07 Sep 2012

A conference at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ will explore the ways in which words and fabrics are stitched together in language and literature – and...

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