Dictionary.com has recognized that all of this gloom and doom has left people questioning life and its greater meaning by choosing “existential” as its word of the year. The website defines the word ...

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 ...

If your 2019 went anything like ours, it sounded a lot like this: “What is happening? What does it all mean? How long will the human species stay alive if the planet’s on fire?” They’re all powerful ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Climate change, gun violence, the very nature of democracy and an angsty little movie star called Forky helped propel “existential” to Dictionary.com’s word of the year. The choice ...

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