Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”.

Oxford Dictionaries has announced its 2022 word of the year: “goblin mode.”.

Finding out that shrinkflation, adorkable, subvariant and even pumpkin spice are now officially in the dictionary might make you exclaim “Yeet!”.

In recent years, an international team of linguists partnered with Merriam-Webster to analyze a decade’s worth of words.

The Chiefs have won a record six straight AFC West titles and will be hosting their record fourth straight AFC title game when Cincinnati visits Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday.

It's an omnipresent truth: Merriam-Webster has declared vaccine its 2021 word of the year.

Merriam-Webster has added 455 new words to its venerable dictionary.

Over time, we were pandemic baking and pandemic dating and rescuing pandemic puppies from shelters. All of which led Dictionary.com on Monday to declare “pandemic” its 2020 word of the year. For about half the year, it was in the top 10% of all our lookups.”Another dictionary, Merriam-Webster, also selected pandemic as its word of the year earlier Monday. Kelly said pandemic beat out routine lookups usually intended to sort more mundane matters, such as the differences between “to, two and too.”“That's significant,” Kelly emphasized. The pandemic as an event created a new language for a new normal.”Lexicographers often factor out routine lookups when evaluating word trends.

Over time, we were pandemic baking and pandemic dating and rescuing pandemic puppies from shelters. All of which led Dictionary.com on Monday to declare “pandemic” its 2020 word of the year. For about half the year, it was in the top 10% of all our lookups.”Another dictionary, Merriam-Webster, also selected pandemic as its word of the year earlier Monday. Kelly said pandemic beat out routine lookups usually intended to sort more mundane matters, such as the differences between “to, two and too.”“That's significant,” Kelly emphasized. The pandemic as an event created a new language for a new normal.”Lexicographers often factor out routine lookups when evaluating word trends.

Tim Boyle/Getty Images(CNN) - Merriam-Webster has officially added the nonbinary pronoun "they" as an entry in its dictionary. Merriam-Webster uses the word in a sentence as an example: "I knew certain things about ... the person I was interviewing.... While adopting the pronoun as a nonbinary description is vastly preferable for some, Merriam-Webster says, there has also been some debate that it is ungrammatical. Merriam-Webster also notes it has evidence in its files of the nonbinary "they" dating back to 1950, and that it's likely there are earlier uses of the nonbinary pronoun out there. Some of the other newly added words and terms include:Deep stateEscape roomColorismBechdel testAutogenic trainingPain pointRhoticityDad jokeThe-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.