Oxford University Press crowned rage bait 2025's word of the year, and it totally epitomizes the state of the internet today.

Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” — defined as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive” — as its 2025 Word of the ...

The Economist ’s choice for 2025 is a single word. It is representative, if not of the whole year, at least of much of the ...

After a public voting amongst three words, this word was chosen as the 'Word of the Year' for the Oxford Dictionary in 2025.