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.

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

28 Years Later. David writes that the follow-up to 2002’s 28 Days Later is proof that major studio releases can still push ...

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

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

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

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

Oxford University Press (OUP) has named “rage bait” as the Oxford Word of the Year 2025 after a global public vote involving ...

Oxford English Dictionary selects ‘rage bait’ as its 2025 Word of the Year, reflecting rising internet slang and growing ...

Dictionaries are highlighting words that run from malevolent to meaningless – and reflect the dire state of the web today, writes Andrew Griffin ...

Though a recession hasn’t officially hit the U.S., it still sounds like it could be coming, so keep storing up those ...