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

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85% Informative

"Brain rot" is Oxford dictionaries' word of the year .

Its frequency of use increased 230% from the year before .

The first recorded use of "brain rot" was by Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 ode to the natural world, " Walden ".

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89

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88

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88

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informal

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English

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49

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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medium-lived

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