The yearlong lapse-which is relatively fast for a traditional dictionary to add a word-highlights a problem that academics and linguists are trying to solve: lexicographers, the experts who write gold-standard definitions, cannot keep up with demand in an era when words travel by fiber-optic cable and not just by mouth or mail.
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