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After tallying more than 37,000 votes from around the globe, the company on Monday announced the 2024 Oxford Word of The Year: "brain rot." A noun, 'brain rot' is defined as the assumed ...
Merriam-Webster has just unveiled its word of the year for 2024.. On Monday (December 9), the publisher known for its American Dictionary announced that “polarization” was the word of the year ...
Their 2024 Word of the Year is the viral sensation “demure,” which took off on TikTok in August of this year. It was popularized by TikToker Jools Lebron, whose phrase “very demure, very ...
As 2024 comes to a close and we look back at the year's social trends, global events and the most pivotal moments in language and culture, one word has risen above all others as the word of the year.
A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word is “polarization.”
In 2024, Cambridge picked "manifest" as its Word of the Year. Traditionally, the word has been used as an adjective meaning "obvious", or as a verb meaning "to show ...
The Words of the Year usually reflect events that happened during the years the lists were published. For example, the Word of the Year for 2005, 'integrity', showed that the general public had an immense interest in defining this word amid ethics scandals in the United States government, corporations, and sports. [1]
“Demure,” a word that went viral over the summer, has been named Dictionary.com’s 2024 word of the year –– beating out other contenders like “brainrot,” “brat,” and “weird.”