Timothy Kurkjian
Merriam-Webster gets an f-bomb, and much more, in this year's new-words list
The best example sentences are short and don’t contain what editors call narrative interest, Stamper said. “When choosing an example sentence for chair, for example, you don’t want to say things like: ‘She was bludgeoned to death with a chair.’ Because that doesn’t tell the dictionary user anything about what chair means. It sidetracks them from the definition, which is primary.” Tim Kurkjian’s f-bomb usage was perfect, Stamper added, because it is short and shows the most idiomatic use of the word, which is “to drop an f-bomb.” “It gives you enough context so that you know how to use in a sentence and how to mimic the usage if you need to,” she said. More
