These two get mistaken for each other often, probably because they sound the same and are only differentiated by a little ...

A new study of 15 million biomedical papers found telltale language patterns linked to ChatGPT, suggesting that AI tools are ...

These overused words have officially worn out their welcome Some words are better left unsaid Every year, dictionaries welcome hundreds of new words into the English language. But just as some ...

There are “common phrases that can make you sound judgmental, even when you don’t mean to be,” says. Here’s what to say ...

A "genius"—a person with stunning intellect, or just a friend who knew where you left your phone? Here are some words that have lost meaning.

Dear Miss Manners: Two overused phrases bother me: 1. “That's a great question.” The first time someone said that to me, I thought I must be clever. Now, that phrase is so overused, it's just ...

Salon contributor Roxane Gay, a writing professor at Eastern Illinois University, told me in an email, “When people use the word actually in many contexts, they are implying that they have ...

The problem isn’t that ChatGPT has no idea what a cliché is. It can tell when a phrase is super common, and it can find out whether a word has been described as being overused.

I have wanted to write this article for some time because it addresses a pet peeve of mine – annoying and overused phrases and words.