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Manifesting freedom from brain rot’ and other attempts to encase our aspirations in words” FOR several years now, at yearend, ...

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

Famous dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster, Cambridge, Dictionary.com and Oxford ... of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging." ...

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 ...

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, social media refers to ... through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such ...

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“Brain rot” – WOTY at Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary – refers ... particularly online content, considered trivial or unchallenging.

The word of the year for 2024 should have been “billionaire.” It infested virtually every story about presidential politics.