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 ...

Oxford's Australian Children’s Word of the Year for 2024 is 'friend', reflecting children's desire for deeper connection in a digital world.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This word has appeared in 25 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in 23 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year.

Helen Lewis and Armando Iannucci present a journalist and a comedy writer's take on words and phrases that defined politics in 2024. Show more In a year where Labour secured a 'loveless landslide ...

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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 ...