The 2025 selection follows its predecessors, "brain rot" from 2024, "rizz" from 2023 and "goblin mode" from 2022.

'Rage bait' is Oxford's word of the year for 2025. What it means. The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec.

Rage bait' is the Oxford Word of the Year which makes sense as anger, indignation and violence have become the raw materials ...

The Oxford University Press has selected "rage bait" as its word of the year, in a nod to how easily digital indignation can be manipulated to create engagement in online content. The phrase was ...

While Dictionary.com already picked “67″ as its word of the year, the preeminent experts on language have chosen a different path. Oxford has chosen “rage bait” as the word of 2025.

The phrase refers to online content that is deliberately designed to elicit anger in order to drive traffic to a particular ...

Rage Bait has been named the Oxford University Press’ word of the year for 2025, beating out Aura Farming to the title.

From Glassdoor's "fatigue" to Oxford Dictionary's "rage bait," the words of 2025 is reflecting a sense of exhaustion and ...

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” — defined as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive” — as its 2025 Word of the ...

Oxford named "rage bait" the word of the year for 2025. In 2022, the word was first used to describe a driver's reaction when ...