“‘Authentic’ has been selected as the 2023 word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, landing among the most-looked-up words in the dictionary’s 500,000 entries, the company said in a press release Monday.” (Merriam-Webster.com)

   Authentic. Adj. Not false or imitation: real, actual. Not counterfeit or copied.

Example: Being from Charleston, S.C., she has an authentic Southern accent.

Seems like this word was the most-looked-up because of the prevalence and confusion around artificial intelligence, as people get used to its effects on our world. From deep fakes in videos and photographs to made-up stories in publications and online. People are having to investigate to figure out

is that an authentic Prada handbag, how the information can be authenticated, how to establish user-authentication, who can verify the authenticity of the information, and if an authenticator is needed to verify the information.

Read more about some of the ways authentic was used this year.

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