You know that feeling when you read something online and it seems deliberately provocative, almost manufactured to create outrage? You may have just encountered “rage bait” – content deliberately ...

Roughly 500 miles east of Bali lies the island of Flores, a vocational powerhouse that supplies seminarians not only to ...

Cambridge Dictionary chooses parasocial as the Word of the Year 2025. Learn its meaning, origin, examples, antonyms, synonyms ...

Last year, OUP named “brain rot” as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

The winning word was chosen by a combination of votes, sentiment of public commentary, and analysis of OUP’s lexical data.

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The word "ideology" has become a fixture in American political rhetoric, invoked by leaders to cast opponents' beliefs as ...

A comprehensive September review of 71 studies involving nearly 100,000 participants found that heavy short-form video use is ...

ICE agents inside a Centre Street garage, delaying an expected Canal Street raid before NYPD officers intervened. The ...

Two spoken word poets, Lailonie Johnson and Dakohai Matityahu, opened the show, immediately penetrating barriers between performers and the audience as well as between audience members themselves.

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