Comedian Jon Stewart questioned whether President Donald Trump understood what it meant to “obliterate” Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Over the weekend, Trump threatened to “obliterate” Iranian power ...

WASHINGTON — Fans of Taylor Swift now have their fandom name enshrined in the digital dictionary. The word "Swiftie" was coined by dictionary.com, one of the world's leading online definition websites ...

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- English just installed a software update. In the 2026 Winter Word Drop, Dictionary.com added more than 1,500 new entries, with science and technology ...

SEOUL, Jan. 8 (UPI) --The Oxford English Dictionary has added eight words drawn from South Korean culture in its latest quarterly update, reflecting the continued influence of Korean food, customs and ...

The Oxford Dictionary has announced that its 2025 Word of the Year is "rage bait." Perfect. There were many candidates this year, including "rizz," shorthand for charisma, and "Ohio," which is not a ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

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, landed it ...

Doomscrolling has a new hazard. Oxford University Press announced “rage bait” is its 2025 word of the year. The prestigious publisher defines “rage bait” as “online content deliberately designed to ...

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 ...

The power couple's engagement in August partially influenced the dictionary's 2025 word of choice Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.