‘Rage bait’ has been named Oxford University's word of the year for 2025. Rage Bait is defined as the feeling a person gets when reading something online that appears to purposely incite anger or get ...

"Rage bait" is the Oxford Word of the Year.Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images "Rage bait" is the Oxford University Press' Word of the Year. I worry: Will overexposure to the concept of rage ...

Previous words of the year include "podcast," "goblin mode" and "brain rot." The Oxford University Press has selected "rage bait" as its word of the year, in a nod to how easily digital indignation ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

At first, I was sad to see that the linguist team at the Oxford English Dictionary had picked “rage bait” as the Word of the Year. But there’s no doubt it was the right choice. As the wordsmiths ...

According to an official announcement post, Oxford Dictionary’s team of lexicographers choose a shortlist of potential words each year by analyzing data and trends to “identify new and emerging words ...

"Rage bait" is the Oxford University Press' Word of the Year. I worry: Will overexposure to the concept of rage baiting kill it off? I say SELL on rage bait and BUY on earnest posting for 2026. I have ...

If you've spent any amount of time online, you've likely encountered rage bait, and may not even know it. But rage bait is becoming much more common, according to the Social Switch Project, to the ...

Every December, Oxford University Press encapsulates the previous year with one word and crowns it word of the year. This year, the winner of that honor is not so much one word as it is two words: ...

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