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Example sentences for: encarta

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In this, it is very much like another Microsoft product, the new Encarta Dictionary . The dictionary and its style guide would make Mrs. Grundy proud.
Well, we're giving away a Slate umbrella or a Microsoft Encarta Virtual Globe with each paid sub--and those really might run out.
Because the company thought its brand name was irresistible, it brushed off the challenge posed by Microsoft's Encarta CD-ROM encyclopedia, and when it first introduced the CD-ROM version of its own encyclopedia, it priced it so high that Encarta was essentially handed the market.
This wasn't a case of misinterpretation--the book has very severe problems, which were barely touched on even in the harsher newspaper reviews (which, in any event, are unlikely to have much effect on Encarta 's sales).
Anne H. Soukhanov, who oversaw the most recent (third) edition of the American Heritage Dictionary and is now the North American editor of the Encarta World English Dictionary , recalls coming across the word these days mostly in speech, "especially in sardonic and sarcastic replies to negative-context statements such as 'Dad, I just wrecked your new car' or 'This to inform you that the IRS has targeted you for a 10 year audit,' where its use as an interjectional reply parallels similar use of standard terms like 'beautiful,' 'terrific,' or 'great.