In February OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe-coding." By November, it made it into the dictionary.

The dictionary says the viral word, which has become particularly popular among members of Gen Alpha, is "meaningless, ...

The second book in Danielle Trussoni ’s puzzle series, “The Puzzle Box,” is as captivating and action-packed as her first, “The Puzzle Master,” which I loved. The series features Mike Brink, who has ...

Dictionary.com has selected a word of the year for 2025 that is not even technically a word – it's more of an inside joke ...

Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

The term may still be in its infancy, but 2025 has been its year, causing it the sky rocket into public consciousness.

Public figures from writers to lawmakers have launched a campaign ahead of International Women's Day to change a leading ...

Some of the words are cutesy (kerfuffle, jubilee). Others are onomatopoeic, with a similar sound to the idea they’re describing (meow, clink, squeak). Some are bizarre sounding (for example, syzygy: ...

Grammar expert June Casagrande tackles the use of hyphens with a close look at eight multiword terms that writers sometimes get wrong.

The U.S. Mint is discontinuing the Lincoln Penny, a staple of the American economy since 1909, due to the high cost of production, a move that ends a long history of the coin's role as a symbol of ...

Viral TikTok trend 67 has been recently selected as the Word of the Year by Dictionary.com. CBS News stated that the word emerged from Skrilla’s single Doot Doot (6 7), and it eventually started ...

For teachers, the numbers six and seven have suddenly taken on a new—and dreaded—significance this school year. From French class to gym class, students are frequently saying (or shouting) “six-seven” ...