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"Thomas Jefferson survives." What Adams didn't know was that Jefferson had actually passed away several hours earlier.
Here is what to know about rizz and some other words that were in the running for the Oxford Word of the Year 2023.
What word defined the past year for you? Find out if your guess matches the actual word of the year from five prominent dictionaries.
A family from Texas shared the devastating last words of a young man who died while trying to save them from the devastating ...
Why did dictionary.com pick "hallucinate" as its word of the year? There was a 45% increase in dictionary lookups for "hallucinate" when compared to last year, according to the site.
There’s a word for the feeling you get after endlessly scrolling on social media — and Oxford chose it as their word of the year.
An 18-year-old girl Disha Thakkar has shared the last words of her 17-year-old best friend who was a victim of the Air India plane crash The deceased and her father were delivering tiffins to her ...
Oxford said this word “sheds light on humanity’s evolving relationship with technology.” Usage of the word increased 230%, in the last year according to data from the Oxford Corpus.
A 67-year-old convicted murderer became the first person in the United States to be executed by firing squad in 15 years, using his final words to call for an end to the death penalty.
In 2003, Merriam-Webster kicked off the annual tradition of choosing a "word of the year," based on search volume on the dictionary publisher's website, which serves as an on-the-nose superlative ...