Collins Dictionary
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With fantasy dominating the bestseller lists, it’s easy to imagine that major bestsellers such as Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, and George R.R. Martin are a 21st-century phenomenon. In reality, fantasy writing has been capturing imagination since long before the romantasy takeover. Human history is steeped in myths and folklore, passed down from generation to generation by…
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Permacrisis – a word describing the feeling of living through a period of war, inflation, and political instability – has been chosen as Collins Dictionary’s word of the year. It “sums up just how truly awful 2022 has been for so many people”, said Alex Beecroft, head of Collins Learning. It led Collins’s annual compilation…
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NFT,” the abbreviation of “non-fungible token,” has been named Word of the Year by dictionary publisher Collins, beating “crypto” and “cheugy” to the top spot. An NFT is “a unique digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, that is used to record ownership of an asset such as an artwork or a collectible,” according to a blog post from…
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