Dictionary.com announced its 2019 Word of the Year today, and it is a big mood. The website has chosen the word "existential", as in "existential crisis" or "existential dread" — two things the vast ...

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Oxford chose the word of the year from a short list of words that were all related to the environment. "It reflects it was a real preoccupation of the English-speaking world in 2019." Recent words of ...

Merriam Webster released its top-searched for words during the 2019 year and here’s what searchers most commonly looked up. In more recent times, they has also been used to refer to one person whose ...

NEW YORK — The word ‘they,’ which was officially added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a nonbinary pronoun in September, has been named the word of the year for 2019. Peter Sokolowski, a ...