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Every year, language institutions choose a Word of the Year to encapsulate prevailing cultural concerns and usage patterns. For 2025, Merriam-Webster’s selection illustrates h...
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Language and Lexicography
Every year, language institutions choose a Word of the Year to encapsulate prevailing cultural concerns and usage patterns. For 2025, Merriam-Webster’s selection illustrates h...
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In 2019, Dictionary.com named existential as its Word of the Year, reflecting widespread concern over climate change, political instability, public health, and digital surveilla...
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As language observatories prepare their annual reviews, the question what is the word of the year in 2025 reflects a durable public interest in how societies name their prevaili...
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The Word of the Year 2023 was ‘hallucinate’ , selected by multiple authoritative language observers to reflect how sharply generative AI entered everyday discourse. This cho...
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