WASHINGTON — Dictionary.com announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and it may sound familiar to parents of school-aged children. The online dictionary revealed on Tuesday that its Word of the Year is "6 ...

This year, lookups on Dictionary.com increased for A.I.-related words, including "generative A.I.,” “GPT” and “chatbot.” Pexels As 2023 draws to a close, Dictionary.com has picked “hallucinate” as its ...

Merriam-Webster names “slop” its 2025 Word of the Year, spotlighting the rise of low-quality AI-generated content flooding ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, ...

Dictionary.com has crowned demure its Word of the Year for 2024, just ahead of brainrot and brat in the battle for supremacy in the pop culture lexicon. Extreme weather, Midwest nice and weird also ...

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.

While most people might think of hallucinating as something that afflicts the human brain, Dictionary.com actually had artificial intelligence in mind when it picked "hallucinate" as its word of the ...