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Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A long-running theme of U.S. black history (a panel from Jacob Lawrence's 1940-41 "Migration Series") may have to be revised. © Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence ...

Squid Game, social media and a coffee craze came together to contribute one of the newest words in the Oxford English Dictionary. “Dalgona” was added in December. The beverage (2 tbsp each of instant ...

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’ “We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we ...

No matter how long you've been reading, no matter how vast your vocabulary is, you'll always find words you just don't know from time to time. The Mac's built-in Dictionary app makes those moments ...