Kakistocracy” is trending again. The obscure term, coined as early as the seventeenth century and defined by Merriam-Webster ...

Hence “chock-a-block” was born. Non-seafarers ended up conflating the sailor’s term with the Middle English word chokkefull, ...

The word “demure” has been named Dictionary.com’s 2024 Word of the Year, largely due to the creativity of TikToker Jools ...

Mystifying and confounding, yes, but not (really) — in view of the “budget.” I searched the word “activism” in the dictionary ...

The word is “broadly unpopular,” with 75% of Latinos saying it shouldn’t be used, according to a new Pew Research Center ...

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Two of the seven AI detectors I tested correctly identified AI-generated content 100% of the time. This is up from zero ...

This may have been the year of "Brat summer," but by August another buzzworthy phrase had usurped it in the pop culture ...

"Well, as they say on TV, 'the mere fact that you realize you need help indicates that you are not too far gone.'” ...

America is the land of inequality disguised as opportunity, and though elite institutions have played a role in that ...

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