For two decades, the "Word of the Year" has become a real-time reflection of what people are curious about and searching for on Merriam-Webster. For two decades, the "Word of the Year" has become a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” Authentic ...

When the time came for Merriam-Webster to pick its top word of 2011, its editors decided they needed to be pragmatic. So they chose ... pragmatic. The word, an adjective that means practical and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Technology has enabled Merriam-Webster in Springfield to add a great many words to the dictionary every year. Merriam-Webster Online has added more than 1,000 new words ...

Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Everyone seems to want one, but apparently a lot of Americans aren’t sure what exactly a “bail-out” is. The word, which shot to prominence amid the financial meltdown, was looked ...