These words are commonly heard in English classes. The answers are all related to literary terms. Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal. Today's spangram is Poetry. Not the day you're after? Here ...

The English language is full of words that grind people’s gears, from gross ones like pus to overused ones like amazing. Here ...

The New York Times’ Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It’s now available in the NYT Games app alongside the likes of Wordle and Connections (which we also cover in daily guides on ...

Synonyms for the word “uncompromising” include determined ... Fast forward two decades and history seemed to rhyme -- to use Mark Twain’s word -- in a remarkable manner. The generals behind the ...

[Laughs] I enjoy that part of the process, when I’m looking through my thesaurus and rhyming dictionaries and dictionaries and writing ... In England, we call it iodine, but I had to use iodine to ...