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The OED contains more than 600,000 words, making it one of the most comprehensive dictionaries in the English-speaking world.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2025
James Miles, OED creative economy manager, hopes the building will “contribute to the larger creative sector, and help keep creatives employed.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
OED had been looking for a similar building for nearly a decade.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
It got as far as the Supplement volume of the new OED, which is something, but not enough to assure survival.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The first examples of ‘theory’ and ‘theorize’ in the relevant sense in OED are from 1638.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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