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"Wordle" today #1,094 answer, hints and clues for Monday, June 17 game
Newsweek· 5 days agoIt's even stumped creator Josh Wardle: he told Newsweek in 2022 that he usually needs at least four...
Today's 'Wordle' #1,093 hints, clues and answer for Sunday, June 16 game
Newsweek· 6 days agoConsidering the global sensation it has become, Wordle has remarkably humble origins. It was...
Suits From Around the Globe
New York Times· 1 day agoWere you on Billy Bratton’s wavelength?
A Raven is featured in the Kendrick Lamar-Drake feud — but not the one you think
The Baltimore Banner· 2 days agoWhen Pulitzer Prize winning rapper Kendrick Lamar responded to “Push Ups” by Drake, the most...
Dancer’s Haul
New York Times· 2 days agoElla Dershowitz calls us by (some of) our names — or does she? Note to readers: In the past, Wordplay indicated crossword clues with quotation marks....
Targets of Pull-Down Exercises, in Brief
New York Times· 3 days agoBrad Wiegmann has new takes on old wisdom. WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Brad Wiegmann’s puzzle has no big reveal — unlike the magician in this column’s image, yuk...
A Word, Please: ‘Like’ can mean ‘such as,’ but why use either?
Los Angeles Times· 3 days agoIt was January 2022, and I was frustrated by a trend I was seeing — that I kept seeing — in articles I edited: writers obsessively using “such as” when they could have opted for the shorter, ...
Geeking Out Over a Word’s History
New York Times· 7 days agoA headline on a 2021 New York Times article made a bold claim: President Biden was a geek. The noun “geek” dates to the late 19th century, when it was an American slang word
In Defense of Calling Everything an Aesthetic
The Cut· 2 days ago“Posts that do not relate to the academic study of aesthetics will be removed,” TheRealMisterMan proclaimed, and image posts were banned. To get it out of the way, aesthetic is still defined ...
America’s most dangerous law, Fauci speaks and Biden’s old age
Tampa Bay Times· 18 hours agoThe context, from the author: The Insurrection Act is a nuclear bomb hidden in the United States...