To the editor:

Every year, Oxford University Press rolls out a word of the year to add to its iconic English Dictionary, the OED. The selection is made by tracking language trends in its vast database, spotting rising words with AI, then letting the public vote to reflect the year’s cultural mood. That said, it’s starting to feel less like a fun linguistic game and more like a weirdly accurate diary of our collective mindset and entrenched internet fixation.

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