Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is one that the dictionary suggests unifies both sides of the aisle. The dictionary publisher said Monday that “polarization” is its 2024 word of the year ...

For example, in 2023 the word of the year was “climate change”; in 2020 it was “coronavirus”; in 2019, “Brexit”; and in 2017 it was “Trump”. According to educator and linguistic ...

The Word of the Year is AI related. Credit: Mashable / Bob Al-Greene Dictionary.com has announced their Word of the Year for 2023 and, in a move that should surprise few, it is related to the boom ...

Alamy Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year is “rizz.” Dictionary publisher Oxford University Press defines the viral term, which is short for charisma, as “someone’s ability to attract another ...

And now, "they" has just been chosen as Word of the Year for 2019. The selection is described as "entirely date driven" in Merriam-Webster's official press release, with the word in question ...

The debate began when Bhavish Aggarwal, who was last year involved in a public spat with Kunal Kamra, said that Amish Tripathi's podcast -- the "History of Sati Pratha" -- was "amazing".

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 ...

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 217 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in 22 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year.

Editor: I always look forward to the end of the year when the world’s most preeminent, respected and august dictionaries release their words of the year. Nothing quite sums up the tenor of the ...