Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian ...

The terrifying mass shooting at an Australian Hanukkah celebration is hitting close to home for two Texas rabbis, one of them ...

Ostentatious describes displays designed to attract attention, often with excess and showiness, implying a lack of substance. Originating from Latin for "to show," the word entered English in the 16th ...

Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're a good judge of character.

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more ...

Experts say the use of AI could continue to shift control over education away from faculty and toward administrators.

The words we use to describe gender-based violence (GBV), such as "victim," "survivor" and "person with lived experience," ...

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

The most obvious evidence Christian nationalism exists is there are quite a few Christians who embrace the term.