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Oxford Picks ‘Brain Rot’ as Word of the Year

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'Brain rot' named Oxford Word of the Year for 2024

The Oxford University Press -- the publishing house of the University of Oxford -- announced that "brain rot" is the 2024 Word of the Year after more than 37,000 votes and an analysis of its use, particularly online.

Oxford University Press picks "brain rot" as word of the year. See the other finalists.

Oxford University Press said the phrase "brain rot" gained "new prominence in 2024," with its frequency of use increasing 230% from the year before.

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Writer Thoreau warned of brain rot in 1854. Now it's the Oxford Word of 2024

The term brain rot first appeared in Henry David Thoreau's famous Walden, according to the Oxford University Press. How did he use it — and what might he have made of its modern meaning?

oxford high school, Jennifer Crumbley

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Jennifer Crumbley, mother of Oxford H.S. shooter, asks judge to toss conviction

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Those agreements, however, were never made known to the defendants or the jury — which Jennifer Crumbley's appellate lawyer argues in a new court filing was unlawful.

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Jennifer Crumbley, mother of Oxford school shooter, asks judge to throw out conviction

The mother of the Oxford High School shooter who was convicted earlier this year on criminal charges of involuntary manslaughter for the four students her son killed back in 2021, is asking a judge to throw out her conviction citing a “sham prosecution grounded in prosecutorial overreach”.

School shooter's mom Jennifer Crumbley had 'tainted' trial, attorneys say in request to toss conviction

The Oxford High School shooter's mother, Jennifer Crumbley, is seeking to overturn her conviction, citing a trial 'tainted from top to bottom' in a new court filing.

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Oxford names 'brain rot' as 2024 word of the year: What does it mean?

Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” as its 2024 Word of the Year, reflecting concerns about mental strain from ...

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Oxford's 2024 Word of the Year Captures Our Mindless Web Scrolling

Usage of the term has spiked 230% since 2023. It describes the 'deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state,' ...

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Dad-to-be Goodrham delivers on due date for Oxford

Oxford goalscorer Tyler Goodrham had coaching staff monitoring his phone in case his partner went into labour during their ...

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2024 Oxford word of the year: "Brain rot"

While technically two words, the term "brain rot" is now widely used to describe the impact of consuming lots of ...

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From Victorian era to Reels: This word has been crowned as Oxford's word of the year. Are you already using it?

Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot'. This term addresses the mental deterioration from over-consuming trivial ...

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Oxford 3 years later: Remembering Tate Myre, Madisyn Baldwin, Hana St. Juliana, and Justin Shilling

Madisyn Baldwin, 17, was the second victim identified by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office on that terrible day. The Oxford ...

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Extreme casualisation at Oxford University highlights gig-economy conditions across sector

Publication by the University and College Union bureaucracy of information exposing the shoddy wages, terms and conditions of ...

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Rayner forced to choose between green or growth agendas in battle over M&S Oxford Street

On a windy winter evening last week, as Storm Conall swept across the capital, Ikea’s UK boss Peter Jelkeby was in high ...

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