The fact that "authentic" is Merriam-Webster's word of the year may not come as a surprise given how much the crucial issue of truth and facts continues to dominate current affairs and is also ...

Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'authentic.' That says a lot about 2023 "Authentic" was one of this year's most looked-up words, according to the lexical leader.

During a tumultuous political year - marked by Brexit and the U.S. presidential election - political observers were searching for a word to describe a reality beyond the facts. Welcome to the ...

Riding to Team Biden’s rescue, the Associated Press dutifully issued an internal memo instructing staff to avoid using the word “crisis” to describe the scene at the southern border, unless ...

He wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and a couple of epic narrative poems. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, he coined 3,000 new words, and he has contributed more phrases and sayings to the ...

Online searches for the word "gaslighting" on merriam-webster.com increased 1,740% in 2022 over the year before, leading the reference publishing company to name it the word of the year.