AJ McLean doesn't seem to understand the hype around slang words like "rizz," and he clearly wants no part of it. The ...

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Nicholas T Ansell/Press Association via AP Images Tuesday's Wordle answer is "FULLY." According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary it means, "in a full manner or degree," or "at least." Congratulations ...

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Term GOOGLE that was inducted in the dictionary as a verb for searching has been the millennials’ phrase for ‘looking up’ ...