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The Oxford University Press, which publishes the dictionary, announced that its Word of the Year this year is “rage bait,” which it defines as a noun meaning: “Online content deliberately designed to ...

LONDON (AP) — Oxford University Press has named “rage bait’’ as its word of the year, capturing the internet zeitgeist of 2025. US bars five Europeans who allegedly pressured tech firms to censor ...

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...

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You know that feeling when you think you could be real-life friends with a singer, actor, or TV character? There’s a word for that, and it’s Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year for 2025. Cambridge ...

The power couple's engagement in August partially influenced the dictionary's 2025 word of choice Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on "parasocial," used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don't know - or even with an artificial ...

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SHORT FORECAST RUSSIAN THE SURGEONS. YEAH. >> ALL RIGHT. SPEAKING OF TEAMS OF LESS, YOU'RE LIVING UNDER A ROCK. YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE WHOLE. >> 6, 7, TRASH OR WELL. IT'S SWEEPING THE WORLD. THE ...

The phrase is considered an inside joke with no technical definition, often used to signal being part of an in-group. Linguistics experts compare "6-7" to past slang, noting it serves more of a social ...

Skrilla’s viral “6-7” meme from “Doot Doot” becomes Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year, igniting debate over numbers qualifying as words. Skrilla made Hip-Hop history when Dictionary.com crowned ...