Examples include: According to Merriam-Webster ... Outside of Merriam-Webster, Oxford also named its Word of the Year recently: "brain rot." The noun is used to describe the deterioration of ...

PART ONE Merriam-Webster named "polarization" the word of the year in 2024. Hopefully, by identifying a problem, the country ...

Other words that made the short list for word of the year included brat and resilience ... then the other slang. For example, girl math which is used to describe a way of calculating things ...

Green Industry Pros Editor Sarah Webb asks readers what they expect to do in 2025 and digs into the results from the 2025 ...

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 ...

Examples given by children themselves on ... Kindness was chosen overall as the children’s word of the year from the survey of 6,280 six to 14-year-olds across the UK. This was followed by ...

Some words—"lonely" and "critic," for example—were coined by William Shakespeare more ... It's a good time of the year to be messing around with words. The dark days of December bring the annual "best ...

Children surveyed for the OUP poll gave examples of when they would use ... surveyed chose “kindness” as the Children’s Word of the Year, with some of them associating the word with mental ...