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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Words from the NYT Connections puzzle — February 26, 2025
All 16 words, sorted alphabetically. Group them into four categories of four.
The four category names, easiest to hardest. No words revealed yet.
Theme name plus one word from each category.
CHARGE, COST, PRICE, and RATE all refer to the amount of money required for something — an expenditure or expense.
FORMER, LATE, PAST, and PRIOR all mean 'one-time' or 'previous,' describing something or someone that held a role or status at an earlier time.
DASH, HYPHEN, MINUS, and UNDERSCORE are all punctuation or symbols rendered as horizontal lines, differing mainly in position and usage.
Each word is a Simpson family member with the first letter changed: BAGGIE (Maggie), BARGE (Marge), COMER (Homer), PISA (Lisa).