Once upon a time, “goodbye” was hyphenated. So was “teenager.” So was “email.” So were many other terms that we don’t hyphenate today. What happened? The same thing that happens to a lot of multiword ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long ...

New car prices remain high, which complicates the choice between buying and leasing a car. On the one hand, buying involves higher monthly costs. But after you pay off the loan you own an asset—your ...

In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth? By Kashmir Hill and ...

Describing objects as if they are people is a way of making sentences more exciting. This is called personification. For example, Jess's heart is racing at 100 miles per hour. A heart can’t literally ...

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