In 2024, Oxford's Word of the Year was brain rot, a phrase meant to capture the mental fatigue, dissatisfaction or dulling sensation people feel after endless scrolling through trivial or low-quality ...

Oxford, producer of the famous dictionary and expert in languages, has selected the internet slang "rage bait" as the word of the year. It means "online content deliberately designed to elicit anger ...

The Oxford English Dictionary publisher chose the word as it has “evolved to signal a deeper shift in how we talk about attention—both how it is given and how it is sought after—engagement, and ethics ...

Oxford Languages has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year, citing a surge in provocative online content designed ...