'Parasocial': Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year
• Nov 18, 2025, 1:03 PM
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PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, November 18: Tensions escalate between the US and Venezuela, as Donald Trump refuses to rule out military intervention. The press are conflicted about which is the better option: war or diplomacy. In Britain, PM Keir Starmer's Labour government unveils what it calls the most sweeping asylum policy overhaul in modern times, which gets a seal of approval from one right-wing paper. Plus: we explain what Cambridge's word of the year, "parasocial", means!
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