"Rage bait" edged out "biohack" and "aura farming" to become the word of the year. Take a deep breath and think of your happy place: “rage bait” is the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year. After three days ...

And it has become so ubiquitous online that the Oxford Dictionary named “rage bait” as its Word of the Year on Sunday. Use of the term has increased threefold this year, suggesting people know “they ...

None of these fans have ever met Swift in person. So why did so many get so choked up at the happy news? The answer is Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year for 2025 — ‘parasocial.’ How does the ...

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — I carry 15 clubs in my bag, which, hand raised, I know is an offense to the rule that you’re allowed only 14, but really, the extra one is just there as a matter of punishment ...

A new idea is making the rounds in Washington: the 50-year mortgage. It is being promoted as a way to make homeownership affordable again by stretching payments over a longer horizon, lowering the ...

Housing affordability is one of the defining issues of our time, and nowhere is this more evident than in New York City. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani toppled Gotham’s Democratic establishment by tapping ...

You know that feeling when you think you could be real-life friends with a singer, actor, or TV character? There’s a word for that, and it’s Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year for 2025. Cambridge ...

The power couple's engagement in August partially influenced the dictionary's 2025 word of choice Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

Cambridge Dictionary has chosen “parasocial” as its 2025 Word of the Year, highlighting the rise of one-sided relationships between fans and public figures. Officials said the choice was influenced in ...

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding won’t count her legion of fans among its attendees. However, the public’s desire to attend has inspired Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year. The world’s ...

Cambridge Dictionary defines “Parasocial” as “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, ...

Whether a parent, teacher, youth pastor or an innocent bystander on a sidewalk, no one has been safe from the "6-7" Gen Alpha trend sweeping across America — a viral sensation that’s now been named ...