The word “nascent” comes from the Latin words nascentem (nominative nascens), meaning “arising young, immature,” and the ...

The word “revelry” is a noun defined as lively and noisy festivities, which often include consumption of lots of alcohol. The ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...

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 the ...

Runners up included "gerrymander," "touch grass," "performative" and "tariff." It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year. The ...

We saw it on our phones. We ate it in our bowls. This year, “slop” was everywhere. It was so ubiquitous that it’s been named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary ...

Note that I do not take Urban Dictionary as gospel (I’d have problems if I did!), but when it comes to defining the word ...

Mahmood Mamdani boasted of being first faculty member to address 2024 encampment at Columbia; mayor's wife has also made ...

Vibe selling isn’t about a salesperson simply “chatting with a machine”. Nor is it about simply delegating tasks to ...

These words don’t mean what they once did centuries ago. In Shakespeare’s time, “cunning” simply meant clever or intellectually sharp, without any shady undertones. Today, calling someone cunning ...

S tephen Miller runs his daily 10 a.m. conference calls—yes, even on Saturdays—less like a government adviser and more like a ...

Buying your girlfriend a snack shouldn't be a political statement, but one college student says his friends have turned basic ...