Lake Superior State University reveals its annual list of banished words and phrases, citing misuse, overuse and uselessness.

Choosing a word for the year might give you the motivation you need to make this year even better than the one before. Get ...

Ever feel like you’ve run out of words? Just in time for the new year, the folks who decide what to fill our dictionaries ...

LSSU has been compiling a lighthearted list of banished words every year since 1976, when the school's former public ...

The tradition since 1976 calls an end to words and phrases that people find overused and no longer meaningful.

The new year just dropped and Lake Superior State University has announced this year’s list of banished words and phrases, ...

That phrase comes in second on the 2025 list, which just “dropped” (no. 4). Crowning the common offenders at no. 1 is “cringe ...

Lake Superior State University (LSSU) revealed the 2025 edition of its Banished Words List, a quirky tradition that dates ...

If you’re ready to make 2025 a game changer by retiring stale words that are just so cringe, Lake Superior State University can get behind that 100%. And IYKYK. And if you don’t? Sorry, not sorry.

Lake Superior State University releases a list of words people feel we should leave behind in the previous year.

The list features words from the past year that are "banished" for their "misuse, overuse and general uselessness." ...

Lake Superior State University is out with its annual Banished Words List. It’s a tradition that dates back to 1976, when ...