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Our 2024 Word of the Year is brain rot

Discover more about ‘brain rot’: what it means, its history, and why we crowned it as the official Word of the Year for 2024.

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January 2, 2025
nomoli

(n.) A small soapstone figure of a human or animal of a type found in Sierra Leone, thought by the Mande to possess supernatural powers.

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