Amid historic flooding in Venice, Italy, and catastrophic bushfires decimating Australia's koala population, Oxford has named its 2019 Word of the Year "climate emergency." The historical dictionary ...

“It captures a sense of grappling with the survival—literally and figuratively—of our planet, our loved ones, our ways of life.” Dictionary.com has announced its word of the year, and that word is . .

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NEW YORK — The word ‘they,’ which was officially added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a nonbinary pronoun in September, has been named the word of the year for 2019. Peter Sokolowski, a ...

It’s official — the 2019 word of the year is “climate emergency,” according to Oxford Dictionaries. In an indication of the phrase’s cultural impact, the organization said “climate emergency” was once ...

Dictionary.com announced its 2019 Word of the Year today, and it is a big mood. The website has chosen the word "existential", as in "existential crisis" or "existential dread" — two things the vast ...

In a break from precedent, the dictionary company released an all-environmental shortlist including “climate action,” “climate denial” and “eco-anxiety.” By Jennifer Schuessler Oxford Dictionaries has ...