Travel expands your horizons and improves your life in more ways than one. Going places can also ward off "brain rot" from ...

Rage Bait has been named the Oxford University Press’ word of the year for 2025, beating out Aura Farming to the title.

Four little letters capture the tsunami of low-quality content inundating online life and corroding reality in 2025: "slop." ...

According to Oxford University Press, rage bait is defined as "online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted to ...

Rage bait’ is Oxford’s Word of the Year for 2025, while the word for 2024 was ‘brain rot’ - both toxic outcomes of banal ...

Senior Evan Tionquiao said he used to follow the dictionaries’ selections “back when words had meaning, prior to ‘brain rot’ ...

The Oxford University Press has selected "rage bait" as its word of the year, in a nod to how easily digital indignation can be manipulated to create engagement in online content. The phrase was ...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up ...

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

The Economist ’s choice for 2025 is a single word. It is representative, if not of the whole year, at least of much of the ...

Webster, America's oldest dictionary publisher, picked "slop" as 2025's word and say it helped define the year overall.