Outgoing US President Joe Biden, in his farewell speech, while bidding his decades-long career in politics to an end, warned ...

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The Washington Commanders switched to their current identity only recently, having had three other names prior to that.

Oxford notes that the term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of ...

The American Historical Association, the largest association of professional historians in the U.S., passed a resolution this ...

Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...

While I wear the mantle of optimism, deep down I am a cynic. I am losing faith in the direction the human race is going, but ...

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“Brain rot” – WOTY at Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary – refers to the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially ...

William Webster, who led the agencies under both Democratic and Republican presidents, made the comment in a letter to senators, saying he was “deeply concerned” about both picks. Patel ...

“Brat” is no longer negative. It now means an “estetik” trend defined by party-animal antics, cool-girl style and messy ...