Slate Pears Game 290: May 31, 2026
Slate Pears Game 290 has been released, featuring new words every day at noon. The previous game included the longest words DEIFIED, EDIFIED, and DITTOED. Slate Plus members have access to an extensive archive of over 200 games.
- ▪Pears Game 290 was released on May 31, 2026.
- ▪The longest words in the previous game were DEIFIED, EDIFIED, and DITTOED.
- ▪Slate Plus members can access more than 200 games of Pears.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 24 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Slate Pears Game 289: May 30, 2026 — Slate
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| Original publisher | Slate Magazine |
| Canonical URL | https://slate.com/life/2026/05/word-game-slate-pears-290-for-may-31-2026.html?via=rss |
| Publication time | Sun, 31 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-31T16:29:44.903Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-31T16:29:44.903Z |
| 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 | coeYPFTejYia · 4 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 |
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| 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.
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<p class="slate-notification--error"> Please enable JavaScript to view this. </p> New Pears every day at noon! This is Pears Game 290. I think this is a hard one! The longest words in Game 289 were DEIFIED, EDIFIED, and DITTOED. 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: SPIFFED. More Games From Slate Slate Mini Crossword for May 31, 2026 Slate Crossword: Scuzzy Aesthetic From the Late Aughts (11 Letters) Slate Pears Game 289: May 30, 2026 Slate Mini Crossword for May 30, 2026 Copy Link Share Share Comment Slate Games Pears
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