There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has ...

A slang term for supposed mental damage done by overconsumption of trivial online content triumphed over a shortlist that ...

Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year is more than a century old, but that doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly relevant in 2024.

LONDON — Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year.

“brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year. Oxford University Press said Monday that the evocative phrase “gained new prominence in 2024,” with its frequency of use ...

According to Oxford, the word was first used in 1854 in Henry David Thoreau’s book “Walden.” But in 2024, the term is finding a new meaning ... Many dictionary organizations have issued ...