Word of the Year: Every year, leading dictionary websites select a “Word of the Year” to reflect the most important social, cultural, and digital trends of that year. These words are not chosen ...

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...

Cambridge Dictionary's new word of the year is widely associated with online stan culture. The dictionary has selected "parasocial" for its 2025 Word of the Year. The pick, in part, stemmed from fans' ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Foster is an L.A.-based journalist who covers arts and culture. The trend has been building for years, but 2025 marks the peak ...

If you felt a personal connection with a celebrity this year, you likely weren't alone. That feeling led Cambridge Dictionary to select "parasocial" as its 2025 word of the year. Parasocial is defined ...

Cambridge Dictionary defines “Parasocial” as “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, ...

London (CNN) — Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on “parasocial,” used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don’t know – or even with an ...

The nod to the increasingly popular practice of getting AI to write code for you is technically two words, but at least they’re words — Dictionary.com picked the number “67” instead. It admits “we’re ...

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

Whether a parent, teacher, youth pastor or an innocent bystander on a sidewalk, no one has been safe from the "6-7" Gen Alpha trend sweeping across America — a viral sensation that’s now been named ...

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.