"Brain rot," though first recorded in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, has emerged as a defining word of online, and especially ...

LONDON — Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year.

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Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year. Oxford University ...

The winning word, brain rot, was chosen after 37,000 votes, with use of the word having risen 230% between 2023 and 2024.

LONDON (AP) — Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year. Oxford University Press said Monday that the evocative phrase “gained new ...

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