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A Spooky Missing Word: CLOSECROSS

I use Merriam-Webster's dictionary as a reference for SpellBinding. I've never had a single issue with them until today.

CLOSECROSS

I spend a considerable part of the day looking up words. Today I came across a word I haven't seen before in the MW index: closecross. What is the definition? See for yourself:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/closecross

Maybe it works better for you, but for me, the server returns an entirely blank page.

No other dictionary I've looked at so far has it defined.

Weird, huh. I tried reporting it but their contact form requires an email address, and I did not feel like blowing my email address to a corporate list to be sold and traded. And the form did not like my LibreWolf browser (many corporate sites don't like it and require Chrome these days).

And it's LibreWolf's fault

After posting this I tried it with Opera and sure enough it works! So it's a bug in Librewolf....

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