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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jocelyn Noveck

Pop culture in 2025: A ring for Taylor, an ill-timed KissCam ... and whatever ‘6-7’ means

YE - Pop Culture Moments - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Dictionaries define things. It’s their job. So when dictionary.com pronounced “6-7” as their 2025 word of the year, you’d think they would have, well, defined it.

But no. “We’re all still trying to figure out exactly what it means,” they told us of this year’s “linguistic time capsule.”

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