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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The term "has become shorthand for content designed to elicit anger by being frustrating, offensive or deliberately divisive ...

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

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 ...

If "rage bait" is the word of the year, does that mean it's over?I'm calling time — and as a proud rage-baiter myself, this ...