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Merriam-Webster picks 'gaslighting' as the 2022 word of the year
The Week via Yahoo News· 1 year agogaslight definition photo tzahiV/ Getty Images Merriam-Webster chose "gaslighting" as the 2022 word...
'Gaslighting' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2022
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNEW YORK (AP) — “Gaslighting” — behavior that's mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright...
Merriam-Webster dictionary adds 690 new words including padawan, ’grammable and kayfabe
Journal Star via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMerriam-Webster is the oldest dictionary-publishing company in America and Friday was a day of...
Man pleads guilty to threatening to 'bomb' Merriam-Webster offices over gender definitions
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA California man pleaded guilty last week to threatening "to shoot up and bomb" dictionary publisher...
We’re Being Gaslit About ‘Gaslighting’ Being the Word of the Year
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMerriam-Webster, the most online of the well-known dictionaries, has selected a term popularized by...
The 'Word of the Year?' It's not authentic or rizz. It's audacity.
Gannett via AOL· 5 months agoTwo of the world's top dictionary publishers, Merriam-Webster and the Oxford University Press,...
Forget 'hallucinate' and 'rizz.' What should the word of the year actually be?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNo, you didn't "hallucinate." That is the Word of the Year, according to Dictionary.com, amid a year...
Man Admits to Threatening Dictionary for Its Gender Definitions
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLast week, a California man pleaded guilty in a Massachusetts federal court to having threatened to...
Feeling ‘cheffy’? Here are all the food-related words that just made it into the dictionary
The Today Show via AOL· 7 months agoHere are all the food-related words that Merriam-Webster added to its dictionary in 2023, including...
Fact check: No, Wikipedia didn't change its definition of the term 'definition'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe claim: Image shows Wikipedia changed its definition of "definition" Definitions of key words...