In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the is 91裸聊视频渁uthentic.91裸聊视频�
Authentic cuisine. Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice. Lookups for the word are routinely heavy on the dictionary company91裸聊视频檚 site but were boosted to new heights throughout the year, editor at large Peter Sokolowski told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.
91裸聊视频淲e see in 2023 a kind of crisis of authenticity,91裸聊视频� he said ahead of Monday91裸聊视频檚 announcement of this year91裸聊视频檚 word. 91裸聊视频淲hat we realize is that when we question authenticity, we value it even more.91裸聊视频�
Sokolowski and his team don91裸聊视频檛 delve into the reasons people head for dictionaries and websites in search of specific words. Rather, they chase the data on lookup spikes and world events that correlate. This time around, there was no particularly huge boost at any given time but a constancy to the increased interest in 91裸聊视频渁uthentic.91裸聊视频�
This was the year of artificial intelligence, for sure, but also a moment when suffered a leadership crisis. and chased after authenticity in their words and deeds. Musk himself, at February91裸聊视频檚 World Government Summit in Dubai, urged the heads of companies, politicians, ministers and other leaders to 91裸聊视频渟peak authentically91裸聊视频� on social media by running their own accounts.
91裸聊视频淐an we trust whether a student wrote this paper? Can we trust whether a politician made this statement? We don91裸聊视频檛 always trust what we see anymore,91裸聊视频� Sokolowski said. 91裸聊视频淲e sometimes don91裸聊视频檛 believe our own eyes or our own ears. We are now recognizing that authenticity is a performance itself.91裸聊视频�
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There91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频渘ot false or imitation: real, actual,91裸聊视频� as in an authentic cockney accent. There91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频渢rue to one91裸聊视频檚 own personality, spirit or character.91裸聊视频� There91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频渨orthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact.91裸聊视频� There91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频渕ade or done the same way as an original.91裸聊视频� And, perhaps the most telling, there91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频渃onforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features.91裸聊视频�
91裸聊视频淎uthentic91裸聊视频� follows And 2023 marks 惭别谤谤颈补尘-奥别产蝉迟别谤91裸聊视频檚 20th anniversary choosing a top word.
The company91裸聊视频檚 data crunchers filter out evergreen words like 91裸聊视频渓ove91裸聊视频� and 91裸聊视频渁ffect91裸聊视频� vs. 91裸聊视频渆ffect91裸聊视频� that are always high in lookups among the 500,000 words it defines online. This year, the wordsmiths also filtered out numerous five-letter words because and Quordle players clearly use the company91裸聊视频檚 site in search of them as they play the daily games, Sokolowski said.
Sokolowski, a lexicologist, and his colleagues have a bevy of runners-up for word of the year that also attracted unusual traffic. They include 91裸聊视频淴91裸聊视频� (lookups spiked in July after of Twitter), 91裸聊视频淓GOT91裸聊视频� (there was a boost in February when with a Grammy) and 91裸聊视频淓lemental,91裸聊视频� the title of a that had lookups jumping in June.
Rounding out the company91裸聊视频檚 top words of 2023, in no particular order:
RIZZ: It91裸聊视频檚 slang for 91裸聊视频渞omantic appeal or charm91裸聊视频� and seemingly short for charisma. Merriam-Webster added the word to its online dictionary in September and it91裸聊视频檚 been among the top lookups since, Sokolowski said.
KIBBUTZ: There was a massive spike in lookups for 91裸聊视频渁 communal farm or settlement in Israel91裸聊视频� after on Oct. 7. The first kibbutz was founded circa 1909 in what is today Israel.
IMPLODE: The June 18 on a commercial expedition to explore the Titanic wreckage sent lookups soaring for this word, meaning 91裸聊视频渢o burst inward.91裸聊视频� 91裸聊视频淚t was a story that completely occupied the world,91裸聊视频� Sokolowski said.
DEADNAME: Interest was high in what Merriam-Webster defines as 91裸聊视频渢he name that a transgender person was given at birth and no longer uses upon transitioning.91裸聊视频� Lookups followed an aimed at around the country.
DOPPEL91裸聊视频婫ANGER: Sokolowski calls this 91裸聊视频渁 word lover91裸聊视频檚 word.91裸聊视频� Merriam-Webster defines it as a 91裸聊视频渄ouble,91裸聊视频� an 91裸聊视频渁lter ego91裸聊视频� or a 91裸聊视频済hostly counterpart.91裸聊视频� It derives from German folklore. Interest in the word surrounded , 91裸聊视频淒oppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World,91裸聊视频� released this year. She uses her own experience of often being confused with feminist author and conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf as a springboard into a broader narrative on the crazy times we91裸聊视频檙e all living in.
CORONATION: had one on May 6, sending lookups for the word soaring 15,681% over the year before, Sokolowski said. Merriam-Webster defines it as 91裸聊视频渢he act or occasion of crowning.91裸聊视频�
DEEPFAKE: The dictionary company91裸聊视频檚 definition is 91裸聊视频渁n that has been convincingly altered and manipulated to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said.91裸聊视频� Interest spiked after Musk91裸聊视频檚 lawyers in a Tesla lawsuit said he is often the subject of deepfake videos and again after the likeness of Ryan Reynolds appeared in a fake, AI-generated Tesla ad.
DYSTOPIAN: brought on interest in the word. So did books, movies and TV fare intended to entertain. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 unusual to me to see a word that is used in both contexts,91裸聊视频� Sokolowski said.
COVENANT: Lookups for the word meaning 91裸聊视频渁 usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement91裸聊视频� swelled on March 27, after a deadly mass shooting at . The shooter was a former student killed by police after killing three students and three adults.
Interest also spiked with this year91裸聊视频檚 release of and Abraham Verghese91裸聊视频檚 long-awaited new novel, 91裸聊视频淭he Covenant of Water,91裸聊视频� which .
More recently, soon after ascended to House speaker, a 2022 interview with the Louisiana congressman recirculated. He discussed how his teen son was then his 91裸聊视频渁ccountability partner91裸聊视频� on Covenant Eyes, software that tracks browser history and sends reports to each partner when porn or other potentially objectionable sites are viewed.
INDICT: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on in New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington, D.C., in addition to that threatens his real estate empire.
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