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Oxford Dictionary: rage bait
online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media content
Macquarie Dictionary: AI slop
low-quality content created by generative AI, often containing errors, and not requested by the user
The Cambridge Dictionary: parasocial
involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence
Collins Dictionary: vibe coding
the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist with the writing of computer code.” As a blog post further describes it: “Basically, telling a machine what you want rather than painstakingly coding it yourself
Dictionary.com: 67
(pronounced “six-seven,” not “sixty-seven”)
(Its) exact meaning is elusive. “It’s complicated,” says Dictionary.com. “Some say it means ‘so-so,’ or ‘maybe this, maybe that,’ especially when paired with its signature hand gesture where both palms face up and move alternately up and down.” It added there was a bit of teasing undertone to it: “Some youngsters, sensing an opportunity to reliably frustrate their elders, will use it to stand in for a reply to just about any question.”
time.com
online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media content
Macquarie Dictionary: AI slop
low-quality content created by generative AI, often containing errors, and not requested by the user
The Cambridge Dictionary: parasocial
involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence
Collins Dictionary: vibe coding
the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist with the writing of computer code.” As a blog post further describes it: “Basically, telling a machine what you want rather than painstakingly coding it yourself
Dictionary.com: 67
(pronounced “six-seven,” not “sixty-seven”)
(Its) exact meaning is elusive. “It’s complicated,” says Dictionary.com. “Some say it means ‘so-so,’ or ‘maybe this, maybe that,’ especially when paired with its signature hand gesture where both palms face up and move alternately up and down.” It added there was a bit of teasing undertone to it: “Some youngsters, sensing an opportunity to reliably frustrate their elders, will use it to stand in for a reply to just about any question.”
2025’s Words of the Year, So Far
From Cambridge Dictionary’s choice to Dictionary.com’s, here are the words believed to have captured the zeitgeist.
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