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In a move that could trigger fits of fury among readers, Oxford University Press — publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary — has picked "rage bait" as its 2025 Word of the Year. The term, which has ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary hit shelves this November, words that were once defined in basements, at the bar stool or on Urban Dictionary’s back pages got the official legacy lexicographical ...

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The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

The Words of the Year signal something quite depressing. In 2025, the world’s leading language authorities did something ...

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year has already outlived its usefulness.

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

In 2025, the line between brand messaging and cultural commentary continued to blur. As the year ends, let’s look back at the ...

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

The most popular slang words of 2024 have been revealed, and the results are hardly surprising for anyone who is chronically online.Whether you've been having a Brat summer (spoiler, this somehow didn ...