Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

For the first time, speech has been decoupled from consequence. We now live alongside AI systems that converse knowledgeably and persuasively—deploying claims about the world, explanations, advice, ...

Philosophically speaking, a word is not simply a word in the sense that it just exists like a fixed cannon fodder, to be hurled back and forth in the premises of a conversation. Words hold context, ...