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2025’s words of the year reflect a year of digital disillusionment

  • Written by Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor​, University of Memphis
2025’s words of the year reflect a year of digital disillusionmentMany of the year's winners reference the lack of meaning and certainty in our online interactions.Mininyx Doodle/iStock via Getty Images

Which terms best represent 2025?

Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English select a “word of the year.”

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