The word “circumambulate” is a verb that means to walk all the way around something. This term is often used in a ritualistic ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

LSU women's basketball team participated in a viral social media trend after scoring their 67th point in the Tigers' blowout ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of ...

The Federal Communications Commission chairman faced questioning over the agency’s role in pressuring media companies and its ...

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...

Dictionary aficionado Merriam-Webster has unveiled the 2025 Word of the Year – and it has both nothing to do with photography ...

For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as ...

Two of the UK's biggest police forces have said they will arrest anyone holding placards or chanting the phrase "globalise ...

Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench goes on a festive journey into her family history to discover whether one of her ancestors ever ...

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M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the ...