For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as ...

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

Despite not even being a year old, the term vibe coding has been named word of the year by Collins English Dictionary, beating other contenders such as ‘bio hacking’ and ‘glaze’. The term was coined ...

"Vibe coding," a word that essentially means using artificial intelligence (AI) to tell a machine what you want instead of coding it yourself, was on Thursday named the Collins Word of the Year 2025.

Overall, terms that describe humans’ relationship with technology feature prominently on this year’s list. Although obviously two words, “vibe coding” was chosen by the UK-published dictionary at a ...