According to Merriam-Webster, "rejuvenate" is intended for mature audiences. TEMPLE, Texas — The first Word of the Day in the ...

This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. As is an annual tradition, Merriam-Webster has ...

Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?

Given the events of the year that just concluded, it’s no wonder that the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year — announced early last ...

The word of the year for 2024 should have been “billionaire.” It infested virtually every story about presidential politics.

Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here . ••• While no one word could define a dynamic 2024, different dictionaries’ and publications’ ...

Scholasticide and domicide are among several new terms that has been used to describe Israel's actions in Gaza.

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...

Entertainment publicists and PR practitioners on what qualifies as astroturfing and navigating libel and defamation for ...

If you think it’s “miss-CHEE-vee-uss,” take another gander at the spelling: There’s no i after the v. It’s “MISS-chuh-vuss.” ...

The choices, and the sometimes stark differences between them, provide a glimpse into how different regions’ experienced the ...

Such was the game's popularity that, in January 2022, it was bought by The New York Times for an undisclosed low seven-figure ...