It’s official: 2018 is toxic. Well, lexicographically speaking, at least. Oxford Dictionaries has chosen “toxic” as its international word of the year, selecting it from a short list that ...

We've used a lot of words in 2018, so it's no surprise that there is more than one "word of the year." Oxford Dictionaries' judgment is that "toxic" illuminates something about this year. Oxford ...

According to NPR, Oxford Dictionaries found a “45 percent increase in look-ups of toxic,” in 2018. The word spanned so many searches that “the sheer scope of its application, as found by our ...

OED's word of the year is "toxic," beating out other dark terms like "gaslighting," "techlash," and 'incel." Here’s why it may be a good sign for the future.

Toxic has been chosen as 'Oxford Word of the Year 2018', according to oxforddictionaries.com.Our data shows that, along with a 45% rise in the number of times it has been looked up on ...

The word that best captures the “ethos, mood, or preoccupations” of 2018 is “toxic,” according to Oxford Dictionaries, which this week crowned the acetic adjective its word of the year.