Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

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 ...

The fallout continues after activist John Davidson, who is white and has Tourette syndrome, shouted the N-word at actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo at The British Academy Film Awards last ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

I’m over the word "narrative." I think that, potentially because of the emergence and oversaturation of influencers, the word has been narrowed. It has taken a direction that, in my opinion, strays ...