Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say “6-7” is “cooked” and should ...

Redact” once meant to edit. But around the middle of the 20th century, it began to refer to one particular kind of editing.

With 2025 nearly over, it seems as though everyone is feeling tired in the same way. Tired of the feed, the noise, and trying ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

Have you ever been typing at your computer when you’ve come across a word you don’t understand? Or perhaps you needed to find a synonym for a word? Well, if you have a browser window open, there’s an ...

Google told us this is a "minor update to our rater guidelines with small clarifications and a handful of new examples." Google has pushed a minor update to its search quality raters guidelines PDF ...

“Legalism exists when people attempt to secure righteousness in God’s sight by good works. Legalists believe that they can earn or merit God’s approval by performing the requirements of the law,” ...

Blasphemy is generally defined as the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things, synonymous with irreverence and disrespect of God or Christ. According to Merriam-Webster, ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

Ireland is to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to broaden its definition of genocide - claiming Israel has engaged in the "collective punishment" of people in Gaza. An intervention will be ...