I choose a single word each year to guide my decisions, and in 2025, "Win" reshaped how I think about success, family and ...

If you're currently agonising over your word of the year, I have a suggestion that may horrify you: Do the opposite of it. I ...

For a Word of the Year, this selection might be kind of so-so. Or it might be completely meaningless. Welcome to the slang term 6-7, selected by dictionary.com as its Word of the Year for 2025. Anyone ...

Yawn. I’m not tired — just eye-rollingly unimpressed. Why, you ask? Well, it’s about the words of the year. Just like all of ...

The Oxford University Press, which publishes among other things the Oxford English Dictionary, again has announced its word of the year. Most people have probably never seen the Oxford English ...

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 ...

Which terms best represent 2025? Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Ma ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies. The words of the year aren't just a fun peek into ...

Previous words of the year include "podcast," "goblin mode" and "brain rot." The Oxford University Press has selected "rage bait" as its word of the year, in a nod to how easily digital indignation ...