So 2019 was wordy. Many can't be repeated in a family newspaper. But what were the words that defined the year? There were inclusive words anchoring the gains of social change in our language. There ...

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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint still run the show.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The end of every year brings retrospectives on language from many dictionary editors and word aficionados. Their selections are ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a break from precedent, the dictionary company released an all-environmental shortlist including “climate action,” “climate denial” and “eco-anxiety.” By Jennifer Schuessler Oxford Dictionaries has ...

Every year, Merriam-Webster picks a word of the year. For 2019, the honor goes to the word they. More and more, it's being used as a singular gender nonbinary pronoun. And there was a spike this year ...

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As Dictionary.com explains in a blog post: High-stakes events around the world involving climate change, gun violence, and democratic institutions were some of the top news stories. And words about ...