Up with KREM's Jenny Power educates Tim Pham on Dictionary.com's Word of the Year.

Dictionary.com defines the term as doing something to the fullest or optimizing it, and says Gen Z and Gen Alpha helped ...

The word means to optimize an activity, pursuit, or aspect of one's life, and internet searches for it have skyrocketed this ...

Data center and unc were on the shortlist of words considered for the tribute.

The viral social media trend "maxxing" has earned its stripes as Dictionary.com's 2026 Word of the Year.

If you know a Gen Zer, you’ve likely heard of looksmaxxing — and maybe even “mallmaxxing,” sleepmaxxing,” “proteinmaxxing,” ...

Searches for “maxxing” and its variations rose in 2026, according to Dictionary.com, leading it to be named Word of the Year. Other words on Dictionary.com’s 2026 shortlist included “affordability,” ...

Dictionary.com named “maxxing,” slang for doing something to the fullest, its 2026 Word of the Year as the term spread across ...

Not limited to note, in articles about English pronunciation, I sometimes see what appears to be a copy-paste of the phonetic ...

Representatives for the online thesaurus say they chose the word to "capture a society that's deeply online and focused on optimization in all forms" ...

Dictionary.com just crowned maxxing its 2026 word of the year. Here’s what the word means and how it went from gaming slang to everyday talk.

Whether it is improving physical appearance, building better habits or getting more out of artificial intelligence, the ...