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Latest update
- What's new: More than 1,400 new words, senses, and subentries have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in our latest update, including Kubrickian, not in Kansas anymore, and cinephile. Find out more >
- New article: This update sees several words from the film industry, and elsewhere, being added to the OED. Read more >
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