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Use of "6-7" has gone viral, which helped it become the 2025 Dictionary.com Word of the Year.

The meaning of 6-7 is “ambiguous” and “largely nonsensical” with “murky and shifting usage.”

With loneliness on the rise, 6-7 may represent a desire to connect and share laughter over something.

Connecting superficially may be a temporary fix but does not replace deeper and more real connection.

It didn't take much more than 6-7 months for Dictionary.com to be clear on what its 2025 Word of the Year would be. During the first half of the year, the phrase "6-7" had already gone viral on social media , in classrooms, on basketball courts, and across a variety of other settings. Since then, you may have seen even more people yelling "6-7" and then laughing; pointing out when someo

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