"Although clearly a desirable quality, authentic is hard to define and subject to debate — two reasons it sends many people to the dictionary," Merriam-Webster said in its release.Look-ups for ...

In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true that the Merriam-Webster dictionary had newly recognized "irregardless" as a word in the English language.

The online dictionary says there has been a high volume of searches for the word’s definition for several years, but 2023 saw a “substantial increase,” thanks to “stories and conversations ...

D’oh! Merriam-Webster surprised fans of “The Simpsons” by adding the word “cromulent” to the dictionary as part of the most recent update, making it official with the made-up term that ...

Merriam-Webster, which logs 100 million pageviews a month on its site, chooses its word of the year based on data, tracking a rise in search and usage. Last year’s pick was “authentic.” ...

The idea for those tweets came from the dictionary's Trend Watch feature, Lauren Naturale, social media manager at Merriam-Webster, told Vox.com.When people are looking up a word at a higher rate ...

Merriam-Webster dictionary defined the buzzy word “compilict” after Ivanka Trump said she didn’t know what it meant in an interview with CBS News’ Gayle King.

That's what the folks at Merriam-Webster did. Sat, 14 Jun 2025 17:49:15 GMT (1749923355937) Story Infinite ... though the words and phrases are now part of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, ...

Merriam-Webster is one of the final few English-language dictionary platforms to release its annual word. Earlier in December ...

The dictionary publisher said Monday that “polarization” is its 2024 word of the year, defining it as “division into two sharply distinct opposites; especially, a state in which the opinions ...

Merriam-Webster is one of the final few English-language dictionary platforms to release its annual word. Earlier in December, Oxford Dictionary announced that “brain rot” was its word of the ...