Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of ...

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The easiest pangram of 2025 was flapping, found by 99 percent of players. The hardest pangram was philhellenic, which means ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the last year.

Every year, teens quietly (and sometimes aggressively) update the English language while adults are still trying to figure out what “cheugy” means. In 2025, slang wasn’t just about sounding cool—it ...

Terms like ‘affordability,’ ‘socialism’ and ‘famine’ take on new, politically convenient meanings.

How did a term that once described the bodily fluids governing human temperament evolve over time to represent cheerful confidence? The answer leads us through medieval medicine, Shakespeare and ...

Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

Sorry, parents and teachers of middle schoolers: your days of hearing "67" shouted randomly are far from over. Dictionary.com on Wednesday announced it has chosen "67 ...

“If you’ve been doing something for 20 years, you must’ve been doing it right,” an Attenborough-esque voiceover declared as T-Pain walked onstage Wednesday night for the South Florida stop on his TP20 ...

The Department of Energy has told employees to avoid using certain words, including "climate change," "green" and "sustainable," according to an internal email sent to staff and obtained by NPR. The ...

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.