Oxford University Press narrowed a list down to six words in November and the world had the opportunity to vote for its top ...

A slang term for supposed mental damage done by overconsumption of trivial online content triumphed over a shortlist that ...

Oxford University Press names "brain rot" as its 2024 word of the year in a nod to modern scrolling habits. "The term has ...

“Brain rot” is a popular term within internet culture, associated with being chronically online. Doomscrolling is so 2020 — ...

Usage of the term has spiked 230% since 2023. It describes the 'deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state,' ...

There's a word for the feeling you get after endlessly scrolling on social media -- and Oxford chose it as their word of the ...

Oxford University Press has declared its word of the year for 2024 after the phrase saw a staggering 230 percent increase in ...

"Brain rot," though first recorded in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, has emerged as a defining word of online, and especially ...

The world’s leading digital dictionary's lexicographers analyzed a massive amount of data to determine what word would best ...

Demure,” a word that went viral on TikTok and became a social phenomenon, has been named Dictionary.com‘s 2024 Word of the ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, saying the decree would protect the country from what he called ...