Word: reporter
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...here again, updated and expanded, a mammoth historical progress report on a language with a vocabulary, the world's largest, that grows by an estimated 450 words a year. The second edition, in 20 volumes, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, will be officially unveiled at celebrations in London next week. It is a statistician's dream. It contains 21,728 pages and defines 616,500 words and terms, using nearly 60 million words (34% more than the first OED) to do so; it also costs...
...uses quotations to illustrate the context in which the word has been used and all shifts of meaning to which it has been subjected. Hence AIDS (another lamentable addition to the lexicon) is defined and then traced back to its presumptive print debut, in the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report of Sept...
...police spokesperson Kyle Tempesta, the guard noticed two Asian men and two white women acting suspiciously in the second floor gallery housing the statue. When he entered the room, one of the women looked startled and one of the men quickly put something in his shirt pocket, the report said...
...police report described the two male suspects in the Fogg incident as Asian, each in their mid-20s and weighing about 140 lbs. One man, approximately 5-ft. 8-in. tall, wore a white rugby shirt, while the other, approximately 6-ft. tall, wore a blue jacket, jeans and metal rim glasses, the report said...
...report also described one female suspect as 5-ft. 8-in., 120 lbs., with black hair and wearing a blue top and skirt. The other female suspect was described as 5-ft. 3-in., about 130 lbs., with short blond hair and wearing a blue ski jacket...