Are you showing a little too much enthusiasm? Chances are, you might be “glazing,” and we're not talking about doughnuts or pottery. While the definition for “glaze,” according to Merriam-Webster, is ...

Has an abbreviation or slang used in texts and on social media left you stumped? Or maybe a meme made you more confused than amused. While the phrases help shorten conversation, their meanings may not ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

“When I use a word,” one of 19th century British author and mathematician Lewis Carroll’s characters once said, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” Though he was a ...

Mystery solved! Here's what TL;DR means and why you keep seeing it online. It can be hard to stay current with the latest slang. Language (and internet culture) continues to evolve, resulting in an ...

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...

Some federal criminal statutes require the mens rea of "corruptly." What does "corruptly" mean? In two cases this term, the Supreme Court has shied away from clearly defining this state of mind. 28 ...

What makes an education intervention evidence-based? Over the last 20 years, that question has moved front and center as more federal and state agencies require programs to show evidence of ...