Vibe coding is Collins Dictionarys word of 2025

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It's been one of the biggest internet terms of the year, and now it's official: "vibe coding" is Collins Dictionary's word of 2025.

Beating runners up including clanker, aura farming, broligarchy, glazing, biohacking, and more, the term was coined in Feb. 2025 by former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, who posted on X of a coding and software development mode that leans heavily on artificial

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Inside Shein's Paris store opening: Huge lines, protests — and prices that surprised shoppers

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Paris Shein store.
Dozens of people lined up for the store's opening.

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  • Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein opened its first physical store in the world in Paris on Wednesday.
  • Protesters and shoppers faced off outside the French capital's iconic BHV department store.
  • It comes as the French government announced it would suspend Shein's online site.

Fast-fashion giant Shein's arrival in Paris

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Stuff Your Kindle Day is back — celebrate Black authors and score free ebooks until Nov. 8

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TL;DR: The latest Stuff Your Kindle Day takes place on Nov. 5-8. The Black Readers Appreciation Event offers books by Black authors for your e-reader.

The Stuff Your Kindle Day calendar was incredibly busy in October. We're all for free giveaways, but honestly, it was getting a bit much. There are only so many books we can throw onto a growing pile of TBR titles before we need to pause and take

I'm an empty nester. As a single parent, the shift feels lonely.

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The author is a single parent and, for the first time, now an empty nester.

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  • I became an empty nester this fall when my younger kid went to college.
  • As a single parent, it hit me hard; I have more time to myself than my married, empty-nest friends.
  • I've realized that as my kids start new chapters, I'd like to start my own, as well.

When my 18-year-old son started college this

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