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 ...

Oxford chose the word of the year from a short list of words that were all related to the environment. "It reflects it was a real preoccupation of the English-speaking world in 2019." Recent words of ...

GULSTAN: HOW DID THAT GET THROUGH? WELL, MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY ANNOUNCING WORDS OF THE YEAR. ARE YOU READY? THE NUMBER ONE WORD, THE PERSONAL PRONOUN "THEY." THERE HAS BEEN A 313% INCREASE IN ...

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 ...

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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 ...

“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 . .

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 ...