This year's presidential election between vice president Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump not only increased the search and used of the word polarization but fueled Merriam-Webster ...

Hello, "rizz." Folks, we've done it again — as a collective, we've pushed the esteemed Oxford English Dictionary into making a slang term its word of the year. The dictionary again opened its ...

It’s official. “Brain rot” is the Oxford dictionary’s word of the year. Many of us have felt that fuzzy feeling before, usually brought on by a digital overload. Oxford University Press ...

And now, the hype surrounding Wordle has been commemorated in the Cambridge Dictionary’s 2022 word of the year: homer. While it may seem like a random choice if you weren’t a hardcore Wordler ...

Other words of the year include “Kyiv”, “warm bank” and “splooting”. To say that 2022 has been a rollercoaster would be a significant understatement. For most of us, the past 10 months ...

What do these words have in common? They've all been crowned words of the year at some point in the decade that's about to end (yep, we've said it.) Year after year, teams of lexicographers ...

This word has appeared in 23 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in 11 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year.

December 28, 2024 • We'll run through the various dictionaries' selections for the words of the year and offer up a few of our own.

While “Artificial intelligence” lost out to “Kindness” as the 2024 Children’s Word of the Year, children also had the opportunity to vote on their favourite slang words. More than 3,000 ...