Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — seen both in the best games of the year and in the culture around them ...

Rage bait is focused on making viewers lose their cool The other day, Jennifer Lawrence did the classic example of what it means to rage bait. A self-professed rage baiter as she herself says, the ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

The Oxford University Press is shining a light on the more toxic side of internet culture by choosing “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. Oxford’s language experts, who are the brains behind the ...

Oxford University Press announced its word of the year for 2025. After three days of voting by 30,000 people, OUP said “rage bait” is the word of the year. “Rage bait is a compound of the words rage, ...

Even if you don't know the meaning of the Oxford University Press' word of the year for 2025, you've probably been a victim of it on social media. The publisher for the Oxford English Dictionary said ...

Mr. Carville is a veteran of Democratic presidential campaigns, including Bill Clinton’s in 1992, and a consultant to American Bridge, a Democratic super PAC. We are not even two weeks from the ...

“Rage bait” triumphed over “biohack” and “aura farming” to become Oxford's Word of the Year 2025. The two-syllable open-compound word refers to an attention-seeking form of online behavior that leads ...

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...

Rage bait has been named the official Oxford word of 2025 after language experts noticed its usage has tripled this year. Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary, said ...

According to the dictionary published by the prestigious Oxford University Press (OUP), “rage bait” refers to “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, ...