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   News from July 19-July 25, 2025

   Each week, we scan the latest headlines to spot words in action. From major news stories to pop culture buzz, this feature highlights language as it’s unfolding. Stories about dramatic cave rescues, accessibility plans for trains, and projectile cucumber seeds all contributed to the vocabulary from this week’s news. audit noun: an official examination and verification of accounts, records, operations, etc. From the headlines: A …

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   “Dementia” vs. “Alzheimer’s”: What’s The Difference?

   You’ve likely heard of them before. Their most distinctive feature is a severe and progressive decline in memory, reasoning, and other primary cognitive abilities. Their diagnoses get easily mistaken for one another, and the two terms are often used interchangeably. Are dementia and Alzheimer’s the same thing? The short answer is no, they are not. Although tightly intertwined, they are remarkably different. How so? Well, this may come as …