{
  "id": 16868371,
  "title": "How Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year went from Latin to brainrot-maxxing: All 17 picks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/how-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year-went-from-latin-to-brainrot",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-28T07:39:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/lifestyle/how-dictionarycoms-word-of-the-year-went-from-latin-to-brainrot-maxxing-all-17-picks-1.500726557"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In 2011, Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year was a five-syllable Latin word most people needed to look up. In 2026, it’s a gamer suffix with a spare X. That’s the whole story of the last fifteen years of English, and honestly, of us. (Quick math before the pedants arrive: Dictionary.com started naming a Word of the Year in 2010, with change*. Tergiversate was its second pick. So this story covers…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}