Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

LONDON — Oxford University Press has named “rage bait’’ as its word of the year, capturing the internet zeitgeist of 2025. The phrase refers to online content that is “deliberately designed to elicit ...

PICKING A WORD of the year is not easy. In the past the American Dialect Society has gone with “tender-age shelters” (2018) and “-ussy” (2022). The Oxford English Dictionary (oed) has caused ...

Whether a parent, teacher, youth pastor or an innocent bystander on a sidewalk, no one has been safe from the "6-7" Gen Alpha trend sweeping across America — a viral sensation that’s now been named ...

The winning word "has all the hallmarks of brainrot," according to the website Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for seven years.

Go ahead and roll your eyes. Shrug your shoulders. Or maybe just juggle your hands in the air. Dictionary.com’s word of the year isn’t even really a word. It’s the viral term “6-7” that kids and ...

Dictionary.com has released its word of the year for 2025, which may be confusing, especially if you're not a Gen Alpha. The word of the year for 2025 is 67, pronounced six seven, Dictionary.com ...

Go ahead and roll your eyes. Shrug your shoulders. Or maybe just juggle your hands in the air. Dictionary.com's word of the year isn't even really a word. It's the viral term "6-7" that kids and ...

Teenagers are likely to be the most familiar with the 2025 Word of the Year. Dictionary.com announced Wednesday that the slang term “67” has been chosen for the honor, which is meant to reflect “the ...

TYLER, Texas — If you’re a parent, brace yourself — because the thing your kid won’t stop saying just became officially part of the cultural lexicon. Exactly. But don’t you dare say “sixty-seven.” ...

Oct. 29 (UPI) --Generation Alpha's perhaps meaningless slang term "6-7" has been declared word of the year for 2025 by Dictionary.com, beating out words including "aura farming," "broligarchy," ...

Merriam-Webster announced a rare update to its dictionaries that will include more than 5,000 new words like "cold brew," "farm-to-table," "rizz" and "dad bod." CBS ...