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Collins Dictionary picks a term each December that captures the year's biggest cultural shift, and its 2025 choice reflected how people were suddenly building software.
Collins Dictionary chose 'vibe coding' as its 2025 Word of the Year because it captured a shift in software building: rather than writing code line by line, developers describe what they want in plain language and let AI generate the code.
'Doomscrolling' reflected an earlier, different cultural moment tied to social media and anxiety, not this 2025 coding shift. 'Deepfake' describes AI-manipulated video or audio, a real term, but not Collins's 2025 choice.
Cambridge Dictionary separately picked 'parasocial' for the same year, showing how different dictionaries can spotlight entirely different trends covering the same twelve months.
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