New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to bring in the “warmth of collectivism” has triggered a hysterical meltdown among high-profile MAGA figures. Mamdani’s inaugural speech Thursday capped off ...

In the winter of 2009, Special Olympics held a global youth summit that launched a new effort to end the use of the r-word, “retarded,” as a disability slur. Over the following decade, the initiative ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence (AI), landed it ...

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"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief In a world of digital noise and clutter ...

After a full year of hectic news, original trends and nonstop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word: “slop.” On Dec. 15, Merriam-Webster announced “slop” as the 2025 Word of ...

After President Donald Trump used the word “retarded” recently, social media posts including the term tripled, fueling a trend that has disability advocates on edge. A new report finds that a ...

Sometimes, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is predictable. And 2025 was one of those years. Extremely unsurprisingly, the famous and venerable publisher of dictionaries and other reference ...

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A growing share of workers say political tension, economic pressure and rapid AI advances are draining their energy at work. Mentions of the word "fatigue" on Glassdoor rose 41% this year, a signal ...

On the evening before Thanksgiving, the president of the United States took to his social media platform to claim in a lengthy screed that immigration was destroying the country. In one spurious ...

George Bernard Shaw famously observed that "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." It appears, however, that this chasm has finally been overcome by the common dialect ...