Example sentences for: merriam-

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  • Also, the editors have avoided the schwa \?\, preferring to resurrect the antediluvian system used by Merriam-Webster in the Second Edition of their Unabridged (and since abandoned by almost everyone).

  • Two of Merriam-Webster III's weirdest definitions are the famously convoluted wordings at the main senses of door and hotel .

  • The estimate suggests something less than the entry count of the Merriam-Webster 12,000 Words , which is billed as a supplement to the Merriam Third , but there the comparison ends.

  • The two larger one-volume works available are The Random House Unabridged (with 315,000 entries) and the Merriam-Webstar Unabridged, Third Edition (with about 460,000 entries).

  • Such a move had, indeed, taken place many years before Philip Gove's editorship of the MW-III and is evidenced in such works as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate, Webster's New World, and American College dictionaries, among others.


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