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The latest Newspeak update is here

Some of the major site-wide changes to existing entries have to do with race and ethnicity, like capitalizing the word "Black" in reference to people, which the company says it is doing "as a mark of respect and recognition that's in line with capitalizing other cultures and ethnicities."

Examples of entirely new terms in this category include Afro-Latino, brownface, Filipinx and whitesplain.

Another dictionary-wide change replaces references to "homosexual" with "gay, gay man or gay woman," and references to "homosexuality" with "gay sexual orientation." The company said these updates were informed by recommendations from the organization GLAAD, and affect more than 50 entries.

It has also refined the definitions for a number of other words related to LGBTQ identity, such as asexual, deadname, Pride and themself.