The dictionary said an additional 13 words stood out in 2023's look-up data. Not surprisingly, quite a few of them have a direct tie-in to the year's biggest news stories: coronation, dystopian ...

Usage guides don’t just list words with their definitions. They analyze how words are used, based on databases full of examples from print and speech.

This year, the Word Warriors have not foozled about but rather compiled a list of memorable — some might say grandiloquent — words to be revived and reused in speech and writing.