In a year where AI, celebrity culture, identity and social media became a center of conversation, it's only fitting that Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "authentic." In a news release ...

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Collin's 2023 word of the year was "AI," short for artificial intelligence. Merriam-Webster typically announces its word of the year in late November. Last year, its word of the year was "authentic." ...

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 ...

The word of the year is determined by data, according to Merriam-Webster, and this means it must have been a top lookup at Merriam-Webster.com in the past twelve months, with a significant ...

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“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 ...

The key term here is “gender identity,” which demonstrates that Merriam-Webster maintains that gender ... to “gender identity” in defining the word “female,” it is most likely another ...

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 ...