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Can you believe it’s already time to wrap up another year? Before we dive headfirst into holiday craziness, let’s talk about something fun and life-changing: your Word of the Year for 2025. If ...
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, the ...
Merriam-Webster's word of the year definitely wasn't picked by AI. November 27, 2023 • "Authentic" was one of this year's most looked-up words, according to the lexical leader. That speaks ...
Other candidates for word of the year include strike, wokeism, indicted, wildfire, and rizz, the year’s most durable—and, on Dictionary.com, most-searched—slang term.
ChatGPT, OpenAI and large language models have dominated the news in 2023. That's why Dictionary.com has deemed 'hallucinate' the Word of the Year.
The Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” Getty Images This was the year of artificial intelligence, for sure, but also a moment when ChatGPT-maker OpenAI suffered a ...
“Hallucinate” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year — and no, you’re not imagining things. The online reference site said in an announcement Tuesday that this year’s pick refers to a ...
Start by picking one word that captures your values and intentions for the next year. I first learned about this “word of the year” exercise from Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist, author ...
On Tuesday, Dictionary.com deemed the word "woman" to be the word of the year for 2022, calling it a "prime example of the many gender terms undergoing shifts." The site suggested that, "more than ...
“Woman” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year – a word so simple and so common but nonetheless, according to the site, “inseparable from the story of 2022.” ...