“deepfakes and post-truth,” the word of the year as declared by Merriam-Webster is “authentic.” “We see in 2023 a kind of crisis of authenticity,” Merriam-Webster’s editor at ...

Merriam-Webster, America's oldest dictionary publisher, has just chosen "gaslighting" as its word of the year. Searches on its website for the word have spiked by 1,740% in 2022, according to the ...

Merriam-Webster Dictionary has a long-standing tradition of posting the top word of the year, and this year it was “authentic.” The dictionary explained that in 2023, “authentic” had “a substantial ...

The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic. The term had the most online dictionary lookups of any word, Merriam-Webster said on its website ...

“Gaslighting”, mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful is Merriam Webster word of the year. According to Merriam Webster lookups for the word increased 1,740% in 2022 over ...

What is a new English word you learned in 2023? Last year, the American publisher Merriam-Webster introduced 690 new words to its dictionary, ranging from the fictional slang term “padawan” to ...

Need a little help understanding the Gen Alpha kids? You’re not alone, according to a new ranking of the most Googled slang ...

Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already ...

A California man who pleaded guilty to making online threats to shoot up and bomb the offices of dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster was sentenced to a year in prison this week. Jeremy Hanson ...

Merriam-Webster has revealed the 200 new words they’ve added to the dictionary’s 2024 edition ... far right and classical liberalism. Last year, a slew of other Gen Z slang words were also added to ...

Merriam-Webster has picked its word of the year. "Authentic" is the top word of 2023, according to America's oldest dictionary. Merriam-Webster said it saw a "substantial increase" in online ...

Our lexicon is constantly growing – Merriam Webster added 200 new words this year alone – with some already-existing words such as demure and sigma, for instance, taking on new slang meanings.