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When the publishing company added “antifa” to its dictionary in March 2018, the definition was “a person or group actively opposing fascism or an anti-fascist movement,” according to Time.
But Judge Kimba Wood concluded Friday that the definition was inadmissible: There is little Second Circuit case law regarding the admissibility of Urban Dictionary definitions.
Grammy winner Erykah Badu says conservatives have misappropriated 'woke' and explains its meaning after popularizing the term on her 2000s song 'Master Teacher.' ...
The OED traced the origin of woke’s newer definition to a 1962 New York Times article by Black author William Melvin Kelley describing how white beatniks were appropriating Black slang at the time.
The definition of "woke" changes depending on who you ask. The term has recently been used by some conservatives as an umbrella term for progressive values, often using it with negative connotations.
View of the Oxford American College dictionary. The meaning of "woke" has been expanded in the Oxford English Dictionary. By Najja Parker, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution June 29, 2017 at 10:32 ...
The term "woke" appears to be immune to all definition, at least by conservative commentators. Fox News' Dana Perino, a co-host of round-table talk show "The Five", stumbled through her own ...