“'Authentic' was 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.”— Emily Olson, npr.org
“Obviously, I don’t know what 'ensconced' is.”— Martin McDonagh, Pádraic Súilleabháin, Colin Farrell, imdb.com
“Ordinary is not a word I would use to describe you.”— Steve Blackman, Leonard Peabody, John Magaro, imdb.com
“My word is everything. What is yours worth?”— Chris Butler, Sir Lionel Frost (voice), Hugh Jackman, imdb.com
“'Bad' is such a big word for being such a small word.”— Scott Z. Burns, Jürgen Mossack, Gary Oldman, imdb.com
“The written word can change the world.”— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Abe Weinberg, Tony Shalhoub, imdb.com
“That's a beautiful word, 'deal,' and you're talking to a dealer.”— Seth Meyers, Father Ra-Shawbard, Owen Wilson, imdb.com
“All a man has is his word.”— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Baz Luhrmann, Jacqui Rivera, Francisco 'Papa Fuerte' Cruz, Jimmy Smits, imdb.com
“Blackmail’ is such an ugly word. I prefer 'extortion.’ The 'x’ makes it sound cool.”— J. Stewart Burns, Bender , Billy West, imdb.com
“Love? You don't even know what the word means.”— Toni Graphia, Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace, Katee Sackhoff, imdb.com
“There’s no word to describe the feeling of waking up and knowing instantly that something is terribly wrong.”— Daniel Handler, imdb.com
“Captain Kirk is the man and I don’t want to hear another word about it.”— Erica Lipez, Harvey Specter, Gabriel Macht, imdb.com
“Not one more deceitful word... your tongue could open a wine bottle!”— Joe Keenan, Frasier Crane, Kelsey Grammer, imdb.com
“Carrie: Why are you being nice to me? Estes: Do I need a reason? Carrie: Not unless you want me to believe a word you're saying.”— Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com
“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me—they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“'ghost gear' - lost & abandoned fishing equipment in seas and oceans, totalling 10% of all plastic waste in the ocean & very harmful to marine life.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com