Gaslighting spent all of 2022 in the top 50 words looked up on the dictionary’s website, earning it the title of word of the year. Last year’s pick was “vaccine.” The dictionary site ...

To select a winner, Oxford editors track trending words and phrases throughout the calendar year. Matthew Horwood via Getty Images For the first time in history, Oxford Dictionaries allowed the ...

There were deepfakes and the dark web. There were deep states and fake news. And there was a whole lot of trolling. Merriam-Webster's top definition for gaslighting is the psychological ...

Lookups for the word on merriam-webster.com increased 1,740 percent in 2022 over the year before. But something else happened.