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Authentic cuisine. Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice. Lookups for the word are routinely heavy on the dictionary companyB次元官网网址檚 site but were boosted to new heights throughout the year, editor at large Peter Sokolowski told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.

B次元官网网址淲e see in 2023 a kind of crisis of authenticity,B次元官网网址� he said ahead of MondayB次元官网网址檚 announcement of this yearB次元官网网址檚 word. B次元官网网址淲hat we realize is that when we question authenticity, we value it even more.B次元官网网址�

Sokolowski and his team donB次元官网网址檛 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 B次元官网网址渁uthentic.B次元官网网址�

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 FebruaryB次元官网网址檚 World Government Summit in Dubai, urged the heads of companies, politicians, ministers and other leaders to B次元官网网址渟peak authenticallyB次元官网网址� on social media by running their own accounts.

B次元官网网址淐an we trust whether a student wrote this paper? Can we trust whether a politician made this statement? We donB次元官网网址檛 always trust what we see anymore,B次元官网网址� Sokolowski said. B次元官网网址淲e sometimes donB次元官网网址檛 believe our own eyes or our own ears. We are now recognizing that authenticity is a performance itself.B次元官网网址�

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The companyB次元官网网址檚 data crunchers filter out evergreen words like B次元官网网址渓oveB次元官网网址� and B次元官网网址渁ffectB次元官网网址� vs. B次元官网网址渆ffectB次元官网网址� 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 companyB次元官网网址檚 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 B次元官网网址淴B次元官网网址� (lookups spiked in July after of Twitter), B次元官网网址淓GOTB次元官网网址� (there was a boost in February when with a Grammy) and B次元官网网址淓lemental,B次元官网网址� the title of a that had lookups jumping in June.

Rounding out the companyB次元官网网址檚 top words of 2023, in no particular order:

RIZZ: ItB次元官网网址檚 slang for B次元官网网址渞omantic appeal or charmB次元官网网址� and seemingly short for charisma. Merriam-Webster added the word to its online dictionary in September and itB次元官网网址檚 been among the top lookups since, Sokolowski said.

KIBBUTZ: There was a massive spike in lookups for B次元官网网址渁 communal farm or settlement in IsraelB次元官网网址� 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 B次元官网网址渢o burst inward.B次元官网网址� B次元官网网址淚t was a story that completely occupied the world,B次元官网网址� Sokolowski said.

DEADNAME: Interest was high in what Merriam-Webster defines as B次元官网网址渢he name that a transgender person was given at birth and no longer uses upon transitioning.B次元官网网址� Lookups followed an aimed at around the country.

DOPPELB次元官网网址婫ANGER: Sokolowski calls this B次元官网网址渁 word loverB次元官网网址檚 word.B次元官网网址� Merriam-Webster defines it as a B次元官网网址渄ouble,B次元官网网址� an B次元官网网址渁lter egoB次元官网网址� or a B次元官网网址済hostly counterpart.B次元官网网址� It derives from German folklore. Interest in the word surrounded , B次元官网网址淒oppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World,B次元官网网址� 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 weB次元官网网址檙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 B次元官网网址渢he act or occasion of crowning.B次元官网网址�

DEEPFAKE: The dictionary companyB次元官网网址檚 definition is B次元官网网址渁n that has been convincingly altered and manipulated to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said.B次元官网网址� Interest spiked after MuskB次元官网网址檚 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. B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 unusual to me to see a word that is used in both contexts,B次元官网网址� Sokolowski said.

COVENANT: Lookups for the word meaning B次元官网网址渁 usually formal, solemn, and binding agreementB次元官网网址� 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 yearB次元官网网址檚 release of and Abraham VergheseB次元官网网址檚 long-awaited new novel, B次元官网网址淭he Covenant of Water,B次元官网网址� 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 B次元官网网址渁ccountability partnerB次元官网网址� 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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