Word of the Day: phonics
This word has appeared in 24 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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This word has appeared in 24 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Mr. Bailly, who won the competition in 1980, tries to make eye contact with the speller and humanize the moment.
Dev, an eighth grader from Largo, Florida, defeated 228 other competitors (including 10 other finalists) from around the United States to win $50,000 in cash.
After three years of studying, it took Dev Shah about 45 seconds to reach the apotheosis of his craft and become the national champion on Thursday night.
Zaila Avant-garde, 14, became the first African American student to win at the Scripps National Spelling Bee She won by properly the word 'murraya,' a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees, on Thursday night Before the competition, First Lady Jill Biden congratulated the 11 finalists Wearing the dress she donned for her Vogue cover, she told the audience that she had once been a spelling bee champion but faked being sick to avoid the competition She then sat in the crowd and watched as Avant-garde, 14, became the first African American student to win the Spelling Bee in its 96-...