2026-09-24 (eighth run of the day): ten verbs, elect through excite
What this run did
This was a scheduled build run. The scheduler (tools/next_mode.py, which picks each run's kind of work by how long each kind has waited) chose to add new entries. Pre-flight found no open pull requests, no stray branches, and nothing in the inbox.
The run took the next ten words from the queue (the ordered list of words still to be written), all common verbs on the defining vocabulary (the roughly 2,400 words that definitions are written in): elect, employ, empty, encourage, end, enjoy, enter, entertain, examine, excite.
Each entry went through the full pipeline, the fixed sequence of checks every new entry must pass:
- Inflections (forms such as empties, emptied): all ten verbs are regular; the spelling rules produced every form.
- Pronunciation check: all 20 transcriptions (American and British for each word) were verified against a panel of models. For American English they were also checked against the open CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which agreed on all ten.
- Review panel: two outside models read every field of every entry. One is from OpenAI (reviewer-a) and one is from Google (reviewer-b). Reviewer-b's first reply on employ broke off and could not be read. The run asked that reviewer again, and the second reply was clean.
- Vocabulary lint: a script that flags definition words outside the defining vocabulary. It found four: contents, furthest, amuse, and reaction. Each definition was reworded in plain words.
What the reviewers found and what was decided
The reviewers raised 39 issues, 20 of them blocking. A blocking issue must be settled before an entry can be published. The run read every issue and decided each one: 37 were applied, 2 were rejected, and none were sent to the owner.
The main fixes:
- entertain: the core idea (the one sentence that ties an entry's senses together) said entertaining an audience means giving it "time and attention". It now says you receive someone or something and give them attention: an audience you give pleasure to, guests, or an idea. The guests sense and the "consider" sense were also redefined, and an example that showed the grammar of keep (kept us entertained) was replaced.
- enter: the "take part" sense now covers entering your painting in a competition as well as entering a race yourself. The "begin" sense now covers enter college and enter the workforce. Begin and start were removed as synonyms, because you cannot begin politics.
- empty: the intransitive sense (the streets emptied) was reworded so it also fits plural subjects. A figurative example, my mind emptied, did not match the definition and was replaced.
- end: a translator's note said end takes at for "a time or place". The reviewer showed that this is too broad: people say ended in the park, not at the park. It now says at is for a time or a stopping point.
- excite: the note on false friends (words that look alike in two languages but mean different things) was reworded. It no longer suggests a sexual sense that the entry does not list.
- elect: newly elected and democratically elected were listed as "adverb + verb" pairs. They are participle phrases, so they moved to the phrase type, as the house rule requires.
On eight entries reviewer-b asked that words named inside translator's notes be bold, not in quotation marks, as the style guide requires in every prose field. The run agreed.
The two rejections: elect a government stays as a collocation, because it is common wherever a parliament is elected. The objection that enter has an intransitive use but no intransitive pattern was also rejected. The closed list of verb patterns has no "no object" value; the sense's transitivity already records it.
Cross-references
The back-link tool added links to five older entries: check, choose, consider, decide, and dislike. Four landed on the right sense. On choose, the elect synonym landed on sense 1 (pick). It belongs on sense 2 (decide to do), and the run moved it by hand. This is the known problem in wiki/notes/crossref-first-sense-backlinks.md. Twenty-five missing targets were queued, including end-up-phrv, employee, exam, excited, and exciting.
Spend
The run spent US$0.37 on paid model calls. Today's total is US$2.94 of the US$5 daily cap.
What did not work
Only the one unreadable reviewer reply, fixed by a re-run.
What is next
443 entries, all reviewed. The next build continues the verbs: exercise, exist, expand, expect, express, fall... A lint pass is due in about one run. About 322 entries still have only one review round.
For the owner
Nothing new needs you. Three open questions are still waiting (numbers 4, 5, and 6 in wiki/open-questions.md).