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Oxford's 2025 Word of the Year, 'rage bait', highlights the rise of provocative online content designed to trigger strong emotional reactions and fuel viral engagement

As we barrel towards a generative AI-dominated future, the art of picking a word of the year will only get trickier

Here are 10 words that were included in Oxford English Dictionary in 2022

With the slang term beating out 'metaverse' and '#IStandWith,' has the publisher behind the Oxford English Dictionary lost it like the rest of us?

As OUP leaves the word of the year to a people's vote, here's how the process works

For the first time, people from across the world will vote to choose the Oxford Word of the Year 2022, Oxford Languages has announced. A team of expert lexicographers have narrowed down a longlist of worthy contestants to a final choice of three words -- metaverse, #IStandWith, and goblin mode. The voting, which started on November 21, will close on December 2. Last year 'Vax' was adjudged word of the year. "2022 has been a year defined by opening back up. However, although we have finally been able to physically reunite and come together again, our world somehow feels more divided than ever," Oxford Languages said. "In recognition of this shift, we wanted to open up the final step of our Word of the Year selection process to the true arbiters of language: people around the world... For the first time in its history, the 2022 Word of the Year will be chosen by the public," a statement said. The three words are each relevant to the year in a different way. In 'metaverse', there i

The Oxford Hindi Word of the Year is a word or expression that has attracted a great deal of attention and reflects the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the past year.

She was part of a group that had organised a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue on Mayo Road, Kolkata

The 10th edition of the dictionary has 384 Indian English words and incorporates over 1,000 new words such as chatbot, fake news and microplastic

London resident Giovanardi was searching for synonyms for "woman" to name a project she was involved with when she came upon the derogative references

The word toxic was selected from a shortlist that included contenders such as gaslighting, incel and techlash