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Dictionary.com has recognized that all of this gloom and doom has left people questioning life and its greater meaning by choosing “existential” as its word of the year. The website defines the word ...

Dictionary.com announced its 2019 Word of the Year today, and it is a big mood. The website has chosen the word "existential", as in "existential crisis" or "existential dread" — two things the vast ...

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Dictionary.com announced today it has named existential the 2019 Word of the Year. The word has two definitions: the literal "of or relating to existence" ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S. But even the artist who coined it struggles to define it.

It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects “social trends and global events that defined that year” and “reveals the stories we tell about ourselves and how we’ve changed over the ...