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An Oxford English Dictionary is shown at the headquarters of the Associated Press in New York on Aug. 29, 2010. Oxford Dictionaries said Monday Dec. 5, 2022, that “goblin mode” has been selected by online vote as its word of the year. It defines the term as “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.” (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

Woman is word of the year, declares Dictionary.com

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

This screen image released by Dictionary.com shows an entry for allyship, named Dictionary.com's word of the year. (Dictionary.com via AP)

“Allyship” is 2021 word of the year for online dictionary site

By Leanne Italie - Associated Press

Joe Biden's Broadband Plan and New Red Tape Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Broadband boondoggle: Not all government spending on infrastructure is an investment

By Randolph J. May

This Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, photo shows the word &quot;existential&quot; in a dictionary in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Dictionary.com picked “existential” as the word of the year. The choice reflects months of high-stakes threats and crises, real and pondered, across the news, the world and throughout 2019. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Dictionary.com chooses `existential’ as word of the year

By LEANNE ITALIE - Associated Press

This screen image released by Dictionary.com shows an entry for the word misinformation, which Dictionary.com announced as its 2018 Word of the Year. (Dictionary.com via AP)

Dictionary.com chooses ‘misinformation’ as word of the year

By LEANNE ITALIE - Associated Press

This undated screen shot provided by Dictionary.com shows the word &quot;complicit,&quot; on the Dictionary.com website. Russian election influence, the ever-widening sexual harassment scandal, mass shootings and the opioid epidemic helped elevate the word &quot;complicit&quot; as Dictionary.com's word of the year. One of the site's lexicographers, Jane Solomon, said ahead of Monday's announcement that lookups of the word increased nearly 300 percent over last year. She said &quot;complicit&quot; hit just about every hot button of the year, from politics to natural disasters. (Dictionary.com via AP)

Dictionary.com chooses ‘complicit’ as its word of the year

By LEANNE ITALIE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens as he is introduced during the National Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Dictionary.com’s Twitter account weighs in on Donald Trump’s call to repeal Johnson Amendment

By Ken Shepherd - The Washington Times