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It will be released Nov. 18, with preorders now available. <\/p>\n<p>Petrichor is a pleasant odor after a rainfall following a warm, dry period. Teraflop is a unit of measure for calculating the speed of a computer. Dumbphones are just that, the mobile devices used before the smartphone revolution that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/why-flip-phones-are-making-a-comeback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">may be making a comeback<\/a>. And <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ghost-kitchens-restaurants-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">ghost kitchens<\/a><\/span>, which came into their own during the pandemic, are commercial spaces for hire.<\/p>\n<p>The new &#8220;Collegiate&#8221; also includes enhanced entries for some top lookups, and more than 20,000 new usage examples. All of the added words were already available on Merriam-Webster.com.<\/p>\n<p>The chunky, linen-cover &#8220;Collegiate&#8221; update weighs in at nearly five pounds. The company removed two sections of the &#8220;Collegiate&#8217;s&#8221; 11th edition that had sparse biographical and geographical entries to make room for the new content.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Greg Barlow, Merriam-Webster&#8217;s president, exclusively told The Associated Press ahead of the announcement that people no longer use dictionaries to learn such things as the location of Kalamazoo, a city in southwest Michigan, or about the identity of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, a Russian composer who died in 1908. For that, they reach for the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Merriam-Webster also eliminated some obscure and antiquated words, including &#8220;enwheel,&#8221; meaning encircle. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to make the &#8216;Collegiate&#8217; more useful, a better design, more interesting,&#8221; Barlow said. &#8220;We wanted it to be more rewarding to browse, more fun to look through, and to really be practical for research, but also a beautiful book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Merriam-Webster, the country&#8217;s leading dictionary company, sells about 1.5 million tomes a year. Most are regularly revised but not fully overhauled like the &#8220;Collegiate,&#8221; Barlow said. The company&#8217;s retail sales overall have generally held steady in the last few years, he said. 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