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==Online dictionaries== {{further|List of online dictionaries|:Category:Online dictionaries}} The age of the Internet brought online dictionaries to the desktop and, more recently, to the smart phone. [[David Skinner (journalist)|David Skinner]] in 2013 noted that "Among the top ten lookups on Merriam-Webster Online at this moment are ''holistic, pragmatic, caveat, esoteric'' and ''bourgeois.'' Teaching users about words they don't already know has been, historically, an aim of lexicography, and modern dictionaries do this well."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Skinner |first1=David |author-link1=David Skinner (journalist) |title=The Role of a Dictionary |url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/the-role-of-a-dictionary/ |website=Opinionator |publisher=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518173222/http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/the-role-of-a-dictionary/ |archive-date=18 May 2013 |date=17 May 2013}}</ref> There exist a number of websites which operate as online dictionaries, usually with a specialized focus. Some of them have exclusively user driven content, often consisting of [[neologisms]]. Some of the more notable examples are given in [[List of online dictionaries]] and [[:Category:Online dictionaries]].
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