Venessa Wong is a personal finance reporter for MarketWatch based in New York City. She previously covered business, inequality and culture during her tenure at BuzzFeed News, and reported on the food ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for increasing next year's defense budget to $1.5 trillion, up from his prior proposal of $1 trillion, which a budget watchdog is warning would add trillions ...

Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say "6-7" is "cooked" and should come to a massive full-stop heading into the new year. Those are among the ...

It’s finally the New Year, which means news deals at Costco are underway. If you want to kickstart the year with savings on groceries or items to help you achieve your New Year’s resolution, you’ll ...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa’s English department has selected “analogue” as the 2025 Hawaii Word of the Year. Photo courtesy University of Hawaii at Manoa The University of Hawaii at Manoa ...

An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them? By Miya Lee and Kendall Blomfield By the end of 2024, words like slop, brat, ...

It is a term you might have heard more often this year. Canada has officially chosen its first-ever “Word of the Year,” and experts from Queen’s University helped make the call. Jesse Reynolds has ...

Merriam-Webster selected ‘slop’ as its 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality AI-generated digital content that increasingly floods the internet. PCWorld reports this AI-related definition ...

This year, my “art words of the year” are a mix (you can see last year’s, here). As usual, they include some terms that caught fire with a wide audience and others that have just been rattling around ...

Every year, teens quietly (and sometimes aggressively) update the English language while adults are still trying to figure out what “cheugy” means. In 2025, slang wasn’t just about sounding cool—it ...

Slop" was named Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year, reflecting a surge in low-quality, mass-produced AI content. The choice mirrors public reaction to generative AI, as people encountered a flood ...