The Oxford team had shortlisted three contenders: rage bait, aura farming, and biohack. These were set up for the Word of the Year 2025. They opened the decision to have an input from the public, and ...

If the online world felt unusually volatile this year, Oxford University Press has now given that feeling a name. After a global vote that drew more than 30,000 participants, “rage bait” has been ...

“I don’t want people to get too cynical,” Tobias Rose-Stockwell said. “It’s easy to see the faults in our enemies and not in ourselves. We’re all part of this dance, and my goal with the book is to ...