Wordnik (and COCA) in the Times

[Laurence Horn]

(Several of our usual suspects are involved!)

LH

P.S.  Anticipating Wilson's complaint, yes, they probably meant some of the Web's *voces* populi.  Although arguably a mass use might have been intended.
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NOVELTIES: Defining Words, Without the Arbiters

Wordnik, the online dictionary, brings some of the Web’s vox populi to the definition of words. It shows “what’s out there right now,” one of its founders says.

http://nyti.ms/uOBaep

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