Continuing the tradition, Lake Superior State University recently released its 2025 list of “Banished Words,” and, like ...

LSSU has been compiling a lighthearted list of banished words every year since 1976, when the school's former public ...

That phrase comes in second on the 2025 list, which just “dropped” (no. 4). Crowning the common offenders at no. 1 is “cringe ...

Lake Superior State University releases a list of words people feel we should leave behind in the previous year.

Lake Superior State University’s 2025 list of banned words includes “cringe”, “game changer”, “era”, “dropped”, “IYKYK”, ...

Words that made the short list for word of the year included brat and resilience which still mean what they’ve always meant. Then there were the “new” words which included ecotarian (someone who ...