In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” ...

While popular, Merriam-Webster said there wasn’t a single event that caused the query’s increase that is typically seen in other words-of-the-year winners. “Gaslighting” is “the act or ...

Merriam-Webster, which logs 100 million pageviews a month on its site, chooses its word of the year based solely on data. Sokolowski and his team weed out evergreen words most commonly looked up ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Springfield-based dictionary company Merriam-Webster has announced that “Authentic” is the Word of the Year for 2023. Authentic is the term for something we’re ...

In a year where AI, celebrity culture, identity and social media became a center of conversation, it's only fitting that Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "authentic."In a news release, the ...

In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” Lookups for the word ...

FILE - A Merriam-Webster dictionary sits atop their citation files at the dictionary publisher's offices on Dec. 9, 2014, in Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is ...