Dictionaries vanished after updating to Catalina 10.15.5

I just updated to Catalina and it wiped out my dictionaries. Anybody know how to get my dictionaries back? Instead of looking like this:

It looks like this:

I've tried copy pasting the dictionary folder from another mac running Catalina as well as copy/pasting the Dictionary app itself - neither of those worked.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 30, 2020 9:33 PM

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tkitb

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May 30, 2020 10:01 PM in response to dlhuddie

See this discussion on apple communities Wikipedia is the only dictionary source after upgrading to macOS Catalina.

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Dictionaries vanished after updating to Catalina 10.15.5

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