In 2024, we lamented the enshittification of services, sensing impending brainrot as we asserted our right to disconnect and felt the effects of a chronically drained social battery.

Perhaps we want to claim that in 2025 we ate (and left no crumbs). But in reality, some of us have spent some time bathroom camping, trying to process the effects of the growing impact of clankers and AI slop in our day-to-day lives. Perhaps your Roman Empire is the nonsense word that’s taken everyone by storm…six-seveeen. Although a new term but not a new phenomenon, medical misogyny is continuing to cause us grief as we ask ourselves, in this attention economy, how can we ensure that we’re talking about what matters?  A little bird-dogging might help us sound out some sanity from our government representatives, perhaps whilst we munch on some Australian sushi. Perhaps you’ve been spending your hard-earned money trying to find that elusive blind box to complete your set – that little figurine who looks like it could play the lead in the latest femgore horror. Or perhaps your spare time has been better spent by making the arrangements to ensure your home achieves a good BAL rating before summer hits again?

It’s time for you to help us decide on Macquarie Dictionary’s 2025 People’s Choice Word of the Year! Check out the shortlist and have your say!

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