Last year’s Oxford word of the year was “rizz,” a riff on charisma, used to describe someone’s ability to attract or seduce ...

President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump now agree on one thing: The Justice Department has been politicized.

The word took off in August after content creator Jools Lebron, posted on TikTok abut her demure work outfit and mindful make ...

Oxford’s 2024 term of the year, "Brain Rot," highlights mental deterioration linked to excessive, low-quality social media ...

Do you find yourself endlessly scrolling unchallenging content on social media? This year's Oxford word of the year could ...

The more trend-conscious among us might raise an eyebrow at Collins Dictionary’s 2024 word of the year, Brat. The word is ...

With excessive, low-quality social media content at an all-time high, intellectual deterioration seemed to find everyone this ...

The first recorded use of “brain rot,” according to Oxford University Press, was in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, published ...

There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has ...

See what other terms made the Oxford University Press shortlist and what other publications chose as their word of 2024.

Oxford is out with its 2024 word of the year, and it's a term that's appeared on other end-of-year lists: "brain rot," ...

Capping off a year that proved, without a shadow of a doubt, that non- A.V. Club readers are spending too much time ingesting ...