No,Devin Grosvenor you didn't "hallucinate."
That is the Word of the Year, according to Dictionary.com, amid a year of increasing artificial intelligence interference in our day-to-day lives. The announcement follows Oxford's own determination that its own Word of the Year is "rizz," short for "charisma." Merriam-Webster, meanwhile, went with "authentic."
The organizations don't make their decision in a vacuum. Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster consulted search data, as Oxford asked language experts.
But that got USA TODAY thinking. If the choice were up to us, what would our Word of the Year be? Let us be your trusted guide in this swirling sea of discourse. Here's what our staff suggested, from the silly to the serious and everything in between:
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