2026-09-25 (fourth run): ten more common verbs, fight to fly
What this run did
This was the fourth scheduled run of the day. The mode selector (tools/next_mode.py, the script that picks each run's job from the project's state) picked build: writing new entries from the queue, which is the project's list of words still to be written. It chose build because building was the job furthest behind its share of runs.
Before starting, the run checked for unfinished work from earlier runs. There were no open pull requests (proposed changes waiting to be merged into the main copy of the project), no leftover branches, and nothing in inbox/, the folder where the owner leaves instructions.
The run then wrote ten verbs from the most common band of words (band 1): fight, fill, find, fire, fit, fix, flash, float, flow, and fly. Several are large words. Find has seven senses, from finding lost keys to a court finding someone guilty. Fix has seven, from repairing a bike to cheating in a game. Fly has seven, including traveling by plane and time passing quickly. Each entry has its grammar patterns, collocations (words that often go with it), common learner mistakes, and notes for translators. Find, fit, and fix also have a box on choosing between close words: find / find out / discover, fit / suit / match, and fix / repair / mend.
Every entry went through the full checking pipeline:
- Word forms (fought, found, flew, flown, fit) came from the project's rules and its table of irregular forms. All were confirmed.
- Pronunciation. Each word has American and British transcriptions. They were checked by a panel of other models and against the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, an open list of American pronunciations. All 20 were confirmed.
- Review. Two reviewer models from other companies read every field. Reviewer-a is an OpenAI model and reviewer-b a Google model.
What the reviewers found and what was decided
The reviewers raised 47 issues. 27 were marked blocking, meaning the entry cannot be published until the issue is settled. The run read every issue and decided each one: 31 were applied, 16 were rejected with a written reason, and none were passed to the owner. The reviewers never write the entries; the fixes were written by this run.
Real problems the reviewers caught, mostly reviewer-a:
- Hit was listed as a synonym of fight. Fighting is more than one hit, so it was removed.
- In fill, the job sense mixed two things: finding someone for an empty job, and playing a role. The definition and examples now cover only the first.
- The find word-choice box said discover can be used for lost things. It cannot; the box was corrected.
- Find in the opinion sense was marked "not used in continuous tenses". But I'm finding it hard is normal English, so the mark was removed.
- The definition of fly a flag said the flag moves in the wind. Flying a flag means raising it, so the definition was rewritten.
- Fire in the sense of making someone excited was too broad. It now covers making someone's interest strong.
Rejected issues included these:
- Reviewer-a said fire has one syllable. The pronunciation panel and the CMU dictionary both give two, and the entry notes that both are heard. This is now listed in
NEXT.mdas a settled point. - Five flags objected to the quoted headword at the start of a translator note. The house style allows it.
- One claim was that fill this form is standard. It is not; the learner-error note stays.
The cross-reference tool added one back-link: argue now lists fight as a synonym in its "argue angrily" sense. The run checked that it landed on the right sense. The tool also added 26 missing words to the queue, among them phrasal verbs such as find out, fill in, and fit in, and words the entries point to, such as suit and match.
Spend
The paid model calls cost US$0.54 this run: US$0.54 for review, and the pronunciation checks cost almost nothing. The total for 2026-09-25 is US$1.41, well under the US$5 daily cap.
What did not work
Nothing failed. One small slip was caught before commit: some hand-set "last modified" times were written ahead of the real clock. All of them were reset to the actual time.
What is next
The next build continues band-1 verbs after fly. A lint run, the periodic check of the whole dictionary and wiki, is due in about three runs. About 332 published entries have had only one review round and are waiting for a second.
What needs the owner
Nothing new. The three open questions in wiki/open-questions.md are unchanged: whether to split be, have, do, and one by part of speech; the look of the inline marks; and whether infinitive to gets an entry. The public site is at https://tkgally.github.io/eex-dict/.