Slate Pears Game 278: May 19, 2026
Pears Game 278 is now available, featuring new words every day at noon. The longest words from the previous game included ENTOZOON and ENDNOTED. Slate Plus members have access to over 200 games of Pears at any time.
- ▪New Pears are released daily at noon.
- ▪The longest words in Game 277 were ENTOZOON and ENDNOTED.
- ▪Slate Plus members can play over 200 games of Pears anytime.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 5 days. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Slate Pears Game 283: May 24, 2026 — Slate
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Record
| Original publisher | Slate Magazine |
| Canonical URL | https://slate.com/life/2026/05/word-game-slate-pears-278-for-may-19-2026.html?via=rss |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T16:04:57.772Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T16:13:35.830Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | wEP6DHRDs0Mt · 9 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
<p class="slate-notification--error"> Please enable JavaScript to view this. </p> New Pears every day at noon! This is Pears Game 278. The longest words in Game 277 were ENTOZOON and ENDNOTED. The complete Pears archive is now open! Slate Plus members can play 200+ games of Pears anytime. It’s an all-you-can-eat Pears buffet! Got a word to suggest? Let us know at [email protected]. Recent additions: FATOOT, PLOTZED. More Games From Slate Slate SoundBites for May 19, 2026 Which Was the Only Movie Directed by Alfred Hitchcock to Win a Best Picture Oscar? Slate Mini Crossword for May 19, 2026 Slate Crossword: Where Kash Patel Went Snorkeling(!?!?) Last Year (11 Letters) Copy Link Share Share Comment Slate Games Pears
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Slate Magazine.
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