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In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”

Kraft Real Mayo delivered a one-ton jar of mayonnaise to Merriam-Webster in Springfield, Massachusetts, in an effort to convince editors to make ‘moist’ the dictionary’s word of the year.

Merriam-Webster has chosen “gaslighting” as its word of the year for 2022.

ICYMI, publisher Merriam-Webster has added 370 words and phrases to its dictionary this month. Oh yeah, ICYMI, short for “in case you missed it,” was also added.