1875 — Adam Villegas — anamorphic, bootstrap, feel-good, inkwell, liminal, rare earth, sundress, symbiotic, windway

1876 — Alanna Stapleton — automobile, birth control, carbon copy, hallway, hypnosis, kaboom, occultism, star route

1877 — Alice Traore — divvy, field guide, fraudster, fruit bat, hoopla, musical chairs, safety net, soul kiss, telephonic

1878 — Alicia Rheal — doubleheader, flash point, folk medicine, full circle, microphone, motorcar, seafront, sweetshop

1879 — Amy Mietzel — anticlockwise, concussed, crucially, earthmover, dust storm, lovey-dovey, ukiyo-e, wildlife

1880 — Anda Manteufel — acculturation, dinky, epicenter, microbiology, neolith, spaceship, thrilled, windjammer

1881 — Andy Gricevich — ampere, aquanaut, blood sugar, cliché, commandeer, cue ball, mascot, nuanced, phenom

1882 — Andy Rubin — cross-pollination, dynamo, fiddlehead, gouache, interface, revelatory, telepathy, time zone

1883 — Andy Villanueva — curiosa, dysphasia, jumbo, orb weaver, pollinator, postcolonial, searchlight, viewfinder

1884 — Angela Johnson — airbrush, chartreuse, code word, cowboy boot, hubris, mugwump, pacemaker, rain check

1885 — Ann Orlowski — body language, hideout, hijab, matriarchy, razzle-dazzle, soccer, snowpants, subculture

1886 — Ariel Wood — allosaurus, basket weave, bootlegger, coffee bar, gadget, mascara, odyssey, snowscape, zoom

1887 — Aris Georgiades — diamondback, ghost word, lifesaver, melting pot, oil slick, radio, subzero, toxin, typeface

1888— Ash Armenta — all-star, chakra, dyslexia, golden ratio, hypermania, kimchi, mason jar, nickelodeon, scaremonger

1889 — Ash Lusietto — chain letter, chromosome, club sandwich, lineup, night terror, persnickety, spillway, trompe l'oeil

1890 — Audifax — adrenaline, brain wave, hinterland, land mine, motorboat, newsworthy, optimal, pipe dream, tondo

1891 — Baptiste Paul — basketball, electron, fine print, flamboyance, frenemy, herbology, mystique, playland, shadow box

1892 — Barb Mergen Alvarado — floor lamp, folk art, holy moly, limeade, malfunction, mothball, spoonerism, travelogue

1893 — Barbara Landes — about-turn, crackerjack, feminism, gravure, gutsy, houndstooth, landform, ombré, tree line

1894 — Barry Carlsen — antibody, brain trust, cholesterol, diesel, egocentric, hangover, hellscape, moving picture, plein air

1895 — Bernie Witzack — blowtorch, brunch, dance card, foamflower, headspace, ready-to-wear, stele, weather station

1896 — Bird Ross — boomtown, buddy, cheerleader, copycat, filmstrip, hooligan, luminesce, ragtime, wristwatch

1897 — Carlos Eduardo Gacharná — aquifer, cloud chamber, dustup, genotype, motorway, obsessive, sportsmanship, star fruit, tailwind

1898 — Chele Isaac — charmeuse, mind-numbing, neon, open letter, photosynthesis, radioactive, swan dive, warhead

1899 — Chris Murphy — artsy-craftsy, biosphere, cloud-cuckoo-land, community center, cover girl, firelight, haiku, neophilia, taxicab, X-ray

1900 — Christina Theobald — American dream, American Sign Language destroying angel, dodgeball, megawatt, rainforest, television

1901 — Christine Holm — arty, autoworker, child support, eatery, funny money, gooey, memory trace, overgraze, poverty line, premodern

1902 — Ciara Nash — airport, door-to-door, energy level, flower girl, intergenerational, outtake, pacifism, racism, snuggly, zing

1903 — Claire Kellesvig — academia, clouded leopard, environ-mentalist, everywoman, heartland, supermind, tropical rainforest

1904 — Claudia Linnea Carlson — bell-bottoms, belle epoque, comic book, dingbat, geopolitics, imperial moth, skywriting, word salad

1905 — Craig Grabhorn — crawdad, Doppler effect, farmers market, kiddo, letterman, moondust, paranormal, smoggy, Tyrannosaurus Rex

1906 — Cricket Redman — airplane, dream vision, escape artist, folkway, health care, pushover, suffragette, touristy, war crime, yippee

1907 — David Wells — bookend, borderline, brainstorming, celeb, civic-minded, fleabag, groundbreaking, lovefest, subspace

1908 — Deck Salm — art nouveau, bagel, cutie, gimmick, haute couture, high rise, intrigued, trailblazer, twilight zone, zeppelin

1909 — Derrick Buisch — boondocks, cold war, circus peanut, color wheel, empathy, joyride, lone wolf, movie, mythomania

1910 — Desere Mayo — black gold, chemotherapy, gaga, jailbreak, space-time, starlet, state-of-the-art, whoop-de-doo

1911 — Ellie Braun — boy howdy, comic strip, hope chest, old hat, pie in the sky, psychoanalyze, soft-focus, wind tunnel

1912 — Elyza Parker — air show, eurythmics, free-range, grassroots, pizzeria, scooter, social welfare, supervillan, tearjerker, vitamin

1913 — Emily Balsley — bandwidth, biorhythm, blackout, blooey, crunchy, five-star, hottie, jazz, rinky-dink, spiral galaxy, talkie, tragic flaw

1914 — Emily Hoyt-Weber — assembly line, atomic bomb, big screen, cheerio, crossword, insulin, light speed, nitwit, stepmom

1915 — Emily Schroeder — activism, bear claw, consumerism, dysfunctional, drumfire, lifestyle, radio wave, skyhook, zero gravity

1916 — Eric Adjetey Anang — belly laugh, bird brain, body clock, depth charge, goofy, lounge lizard, mocktail, photon, slugfest, tear gas

1917 — Eric Baillies — airfare, autopilot, chowhound, cootie, de Stijl, fighting word, herd immunity, mustard gas, pet peeve, snake oil

1918 — Erica Hess — community chest, D-Day, Dada, evacuee, extrovert, fast lane, parenting, slinky, triage, Venn diagram, wonky

1919 — Erika Koivunen — airfield, antioxidant, bell curve, cable-knit, diode, dystopia, ghosting, love nest, ritzy, snooty, superagent, tree ring

1920 — Frank Juárez — bee's knees, buddy system, chainsaw, cola, ethnicity, flowchart, force field, funhouse, gameplay, T-shirt

1921 — Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli — abstractionism, cat's meow, fascism, goon, junk mail, kitsch, littermate, luminaire, poolside, superscale

1922 — Gail Simpson — cloud forest, contraceptive pill, eye shadow, fauvism, hotshot, kid stuff, navel-gazing, pie chart, robot

1923 — Grace Olson — bingo card, cultivar, dead space, dial tone, drama queen, hitchhike, jeez, mojo, moon shell, sax, snowmobile, twerp

1924 — Hannah O'Hare Bennett — atomic clock, electron gun, freelancer, hype, lone ranger, nuclear family, skyway, slap shot, smarmy, sustainable

1925 — Hannah Sandvold — art house, blooper, cold cash, collective farm, cosmic ray, dire wolf, fellow traveler, ground-wave, motel, pen pal

1926 — Heath Matysek-Snyder — algorithm, close-knit, cotton candy, dunk, facelift, field trip, flat-earther, freeway, genome, poeticism

1927 — Heather Kohlmeier — copilot, crookery, echo sounder, estrogen, fishtail, graph paper, interior design, jeepers, minimalism, ozone layer

1928 — Henry Obeng — astronaut, boondoggle, cheeseburger, downtime, gas-guzzler, indie, robotic, soundtrack, starburst

1929 — J Myszka Lewis — aquascape, boogie, esoterica, haywire, icky, jitter, montage, red giant, space suit, sync, whodunit, zap

1930 — Jack Whisenant — charisma, electric eye, hang glider, iron lung, metagalaxy, Nazi, science fair, silk screen, space port, woven

1931 — James Papadapoulos — aha moment, biomass, drive-in, earth color, free spirit, freewheeling, jittery, micohabitat, microwave, nitwittery

1932 — Jason Levy — boo-boo, campy, food pyramid, fry bread, guide dog, interfaith, po'boy, SS, supernova, yowza, zoom lens

1933 — Jason Ruhl — anomie, bra, crunch time, curvaceous, dark matter, escapism, jet engine, jug band, switcheroo, whiptail

1934 — Jen Falkowski — antimatter, boobird, elitism, fangirl, gee-whiz, homegirl, neutron star, newscast, s'more, turbocharger, video

1935 — Jenie Gao — cheat sheet, ecosystem, flashbulb, jarhead, paper trail, penny pinching, piece of cake, riff, tea bag

1936 — Jennifer Bastian — chromatography, cloud nine, den mother, falafel, glamorize, lobotomy, moola, saddle shoe, slaphappy

1937 — Jeremy Wineberg — bubble gum, burger, fax, green thumb, groovy, hepcat, hyperrealism, prefab, scorched-earth, supermassive, viral

1938 — Jerry Chapa — bad apple, chaos theory, corpse flower, dewy-eyed, dime-store, jitterbug, lip gloss, spymaster, starstruck

1939 — Jerry Jordan — artisanal, blitz, bottle rocket, corn dog, grayscale, jukebox, pit boss, sapiens, video camera, wonder drug

1940 — John Hitchcock — counterintelligence, deep-freeze, disc jockey, flash flood, fortune cookie, glam, glass jaw, glitterati, tape recording

1941 — Juliet King — bioscience, colorway, cookout, drag queen, eyepopper, gremlin, gung ho, juggling act, wolf pack, yardbird

1942 — Juliette Walker — audiobook, bazooka, catnapper, cross-cultural, dojo, free-form, jillion, napalm, silver cord, wingman, zoot suit

1943 — Justin Bitner — choreograph, cloud street, crowd-pleaser, dead air, globalism, hot rod, mod, skinhead, silicone, white noise

1944 — Kate Mead — airwave, antigravity, autism, booster shot, genocide, jade plant, staycation, thrift shop, wingding

1945 — Katherine Steichen Rosing — black box, firestorm, game theory, graffiti, mom-and-pop, passive agressive, snow angel, sonic barrier

1946 — Kathy Walter — absurdist, blacklist, big rig, corn row, ground zero, moonquake, particle physics, snake pit, space-age

1947 — Kati Fernandez Lambert — counterculture, critical mass, drag race, jetstream, morph, prime time, spinal tap, workaholic

1948 — Katrin Talbot — aviator glasses, B movie, countermyth, dim sum, dreamscape, elliptical galaxy, kiss-and-tell, namaste, stuntwoman

1949 — Kristin Redman — airglow, aromatherapy, big bang, clock radio, jet liner, moonshot, new age, risk factor, supercomputer

1950 — Larry Stephens — antsy, brainwashing, butterfly chair, dicey, funny farm, jackalope, maven, mugshot, nail-biter, oral history

1951 — Lauden Nute — acrylic fiber, audiotape, closed loop, dayglow, lake effect, manta ray, Murphy's Law, nerd, sangria, transcultural

1952 — Laura Damen Moore — action painting, bad seed, droid, groupthink, Hawaiian shirt, meet-cute, memory bank, mother hen, superhelix

1953 — Lauren Scanlon — doomsayer, ecosphere, fracking, global warming, ice wine, nerve agent, road trip, talent show, toasty, UFO

1954 — Lesley Numbers — Black Power, cha-cha, double helix, flash-bang, hallucinogen, rock and roll, tastemaker, wheeler dealer, zilch

1955 — Lewis Koch — big bang theory, daisy-chain, mind-boggling, motormouth, pinball, skydiving, soft serve, zinger, zydeco

1956 — Lexie Olson — angsty, antiestablishment, crop top, empath, event horizon, glitz, green card, meltdown, quantium leap

1957 — Lillian Sizemore — clip art, clown fish, disco, fanny pack, fantabulous, go-kart, gold record, kooky, multiculturalism, one-hit-wonder

1958 — Linda Farrelly — beatnik, bigfoot, boho, concrete poetry, hair spray, hive mind, inner space, noir, panic attack, rom-com, tailgate party

1959 — Linda Justmann — circadian, happy hour, hard rock, jerry-rigged, klutz, minivan, nouvelle vague, reverb, smashed, soul sister, with-it

1960 — Luis Echavarria Uribe — bossa nova, brain drain, bricolage, cyborg, new wave, peace corps, plant-based, reality check, yeesh

1961 — Lydia Diemer — bionic, catch-22, dishy, embedded, freedom ride, gaslighting, junk art, reel-to-reel, solar panel, vector graphics

1962 — M Sweetnam — artsy-fartsy, bait and switch, carpool, interrobang, hyperaware, miniskirt, primordial soup

1963 — Maria Amalia Wood — assemblagist, banana seat, demystify, elevator music, hairy eyeball, lidar, microfilament, neuroscience, umami

1964 — Maria Schirmer Devitt — color-field, graphic novel, intragalactic, op art, pantsuit, quark, transformationalist, worst-case

1965 — Marianne Fairbanks — doo-wop, grunge, hippie, jet lag, lava lamp, midlife crisis, minimal art, mockumentary, stellar wind, xerox

1966 — Marina Kelly — acid rock, art deco, bullet train, found poem, groupie, lovebug, muscle car, noise pollution, slot car, yuck

1967 — Mars Patterson — aerobics, conceptual art, fantasyland, flower child, hard-knock, heliosphere, love-in, slo-mo, teenybop, yada yada

1968 — Mary Bergs — art-rock, earthrise, false color, kelvin, mega, out-of-body, reggae, smoosh, systemic racism, yippie

1969 — Mayela Finol — ageism, aggro, bonding, courtside, deco, doula, drag king, eco-catastrophe, laid back, microchip, studly

1970 — Megan Scheffer — control freak, dirt bike, dorky, gaslighter, granola, hot pants, identity politics, microaggression

1971 — Michael Duffy — anti-environmentalism, bizarro, camerawoman, cheap shot, fajita, hang time, mental health day, reboot, tchotchke

1972 — Michael Velliquette — alternative medicine, beer pong, brain dead, deep ecology, flex time, floppy disk, glitter rock, lowrider, munchkin

1973 — Mickey Mestiza — affluenza, biomarker, blissed out, crazy glue, C-section, factoid, genetically modified, gentrified

1974 — Miryeong Hong — Afropop, boy shorts, cargo pocket, disc golf, gearhead, gotcha, junk bond, string cheese, supermom, transgender

1975 — Niki Johnson — air-kiss, cognitive science, download, fast fashion, fractal, green-house gas, leisure suit, psychobabble, Yooper

1976 — Oliver Bendorf — abelism, butterfly effect, class act, commodify, couch potato, digital camera, endorphin, meme, supergravity

1977 — Paul Briskey — brewski, buzzcut, cringeworthy, ear candy, half-pipe, headbanger, head rush, megahit, strip mall, yuzu

1978 — Philip Hassett — dramedy, emotional intelligence, eye candy, gene-splicing, informa-tion technology, off-grid, open mic, sticky note

1979 — Poornima Moorthy — colorize, compact disc, food court, hip hop, log off, neoliberal, pepper spray, rasterize, supermoon, white-glove

1980 — Rachal Duggan — air guitar, chill out, combover, electronica, First Nation, foodie, moonsuit, voicemail, wind farm, yuppie

1981 — Racheal Griffin — boom box, camcorder, face-plant, photo op, sleazeball, sticker shock, technobabble, warm fuzzies, weekend warrior

1982 — Ray Mawst — boy toy, couch potato, email, metalhead, micropolitan, overshare, party animal, rust belt, snail mail, world music

1983 — Rebecca Vickers — breakdance, brewpub, cell phone, cyberpunk, empowered, megapixel, nanoparticle, stimming, supercollider, yup

1984 — Rodney Shreiner — ambigram, b-boying, blush wine, cardio, death metal, glass ceiling, moonwalk, phone tag, pitmaster, repurpose

1985 — Rodrigo Carapia — anime, beatboxing, boy band, breakbeat, cool beans, intifada, microbrew, mixtape, supercell

1986 — Romano Johnson — chat room, cocooning, cringey, deep dive, deets, Internet, nanoscale, portobello, soundbite, stud muffin

1987 — Ryan Sigg — acid-washed, bomb cyclone, diss, food coma, GIF, in-line skate, paintball, steampunk, techno, virtual reality

1988 — Sachi + Laura Komai — boomerang child, channel surfing, defrag, docuseries, emo, gangsta, hyperlink, mosh pit, unibrow

1989 — Sam Christensen — blueway, cybernaut, eco-friendly, gangsta rap, intersectionality, janky, misgender, puggle, scrunchie, trip-hop

1990 — Sara Meredith — fam, greenwashing, hackathon, hoodie, microplastic, props, twentysomething, World Wide Web

1991 — Savannah Starlin — bestie, brain freeze, crowdsurf, cyber crime, pescatarian, shoegaze, superjumbo, verklempt, voluntourism

1992 — Scott Espeseth — biohacking, buzzkill, down-low, hacktivism, kumbaya, man cave, photoshop, skeezy, weak sauce, woo-woo

1993 — Scott Pauli — alt-country, blue screen of death, cybersurfer, dwarf planet, gender-fluid, macaron, rewilding, webmaster, website

1994 — Seth Klekamp — Ancestral Puebloan, Botox, chillax, digital divide, friend zone, spoiler alert, spyware, upcycle

1995 — Shandra Bjyrd — alt-text, bridezilla, fast-casual, genderqueer, mom jeans, next-gen, re-gift, slacktivism, webcam, wiki

1996 — Sharon Bjyrd — burner phone, cyberattack, dragonfish, fist bump, gastropub, geotag, GOAT, phish, smartphone

1997 — Sharon Tang — bokeh, deep state, dot-commer, dumbphone, emoji, evo-devo, freegan, money tree, mystic topaz, wingsuit

1998 — Sherri Shokler — amirite, browser, cosplayer, emoticon, dark energy, drifting (car), microgreen, social networking, webinar

1999 — Shlomit Kafri — active shooter, bling, blog, carbon footprint, clickbait, crybully, pwn, red pill, Y2K, yellow-legged hornet

2000 — Sophia Abrams — Anthropocene, crunk, deep web, FaceTime, fauxhawk, geocaching, siloed, sudoku, walk back

2001 — Spatula & Barcode — acid jazz, app, bromance, cornhole, dubstep, DVD, e-ticket, girl power, lean in, text message, twerking

2002 — Stephen Kennedy — airplane mode, eco-feminism, ecotourism, humble brag, neuro-divergent, norovirus, selfie, thumb drive, vlog

2003 — Stephen Perkins — binge watch, clapback, flash mob, level up, metrosexual, Muggle, open world, social distancing

2004 — TetraPAKMAN — aromantic, BBQ, chonky, FOMO, paywall, problem-solve, sharing economy, supersize, waterboarding

2005 — Tobie DePauw — butt dial, glamping, life hacking, microblogging, mumblecore, perfect crime, podcasting, rage quit, truthiness

2006 — Toby Kaufmann-Buhler — bussin', demisexual, googling, hyper-thymesia, poster child, power-up, puh-leeze, scoby, sizzle reel, totes

2007 — Tom Loeser — coworking, DM, epic fail, hashtag, Friendsgiving, quadrotor, queanie, retweet, shadowban, spox, yeet

2008 — Ty Springer — adorbs, Bitcoin, crowd-fund, ghost pepper, infinity scarf, mansplain, Me Too, photobomb, stick and poke, unfollow

2009 — Vincent Mollica — bro-ey, cryptocurrency, dox, frenemy, gig econ-omy, hashtag, jeggings, locavore, makerspace, reggaeton, snollygoster

2010 — Rachel Hausmann Schall — actionism, aha moment, bromance, bucket list, cloud computing, buzzkill, filter bubble, misogynoir, unfriend

2011 — Emily Meredith Lewis — acculture, acronymous, ASMR, blockchain, gender-affirming surgery, nano-plastic, thirst trap, wokeness

2012 — Tess Stroh — againstism, Captcha, hot take, ice giant, ice wine, inspo, micropig, reaction GIF, savasana, snowcrete

2013 — Dusty Karls — badassery, bingeable, fairy chess, family silver, familyhood, finsta, virtualize, virtue signaling, whack-a-mole

2014 — Quincy Millerjohn — beatboxer, bookaholic, Black Lives Matter, fact check, hard pass, land acknowledgement, workaround

2015 — Aaron Granat — aphantasia, bankroller, cis, cloud kitchen, edgelord, fire fountain, hoverboard, sponcon, water sickness

2016 — Rebecca Millerjohn — Brexit, browsable, bruisy, cancel culture, defang, defederalize, girlboss, soft launch, softscape, touch grass

2017 — Paul Douglas — curveballer, exoplanet, falliballistic, funkify, huh, NFT, ringtone, winterproof, Zoomer

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2024 — Lisa Shoshany-Anderson (in memoriam) — boop, chain migration, cheap shot, dagginess, ghost gun, inner planet, mic drop, open source