2004 neologisms

thumb|An episode of a podcast playing on a smartphone A podcast is a program episode made available in digital format for download over the Internet. Podcasts are primarily an audio medium, which is reflected in the term itself, a portmanteau of "iPod" and "broadcast" coined in 2004. The term used to refer to an episodic series of digital audio files that users can download to a personal device or stream to listen to at a time of their choosing. In the mid-2020s, however, video podcasts, either as primary content included in the feed, or as an external supplement to audio, have been popularize

thumb|upright=1.3|Micro plastics of diverse shapes in sediments from four rivers in ‌white arrowheads indicate aluminium, glass and sand (white bars represent 1mm for scale) thumb|upright=1.3|Photodegraded plastic straw. A light touch breaks larger straw into microplastics.

marketing term for the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, online equivalent to Black Friday

anxiety to miss information, opportunities, events, experiences, or decisions improving life

loose political term introduced in the 2000s

policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices to their workplace, and to use those devices to access privileged company information and applications

video genre consisting of edited pre-existing media

phenomenon of extensive media coverage of missing white women

nausea and vomiting resulting from cannabis use

workplace phenomenon affecting women in leadership roles

political theory about illiberal democracies

euphemism, or slang term, for accidental nudity in public

expression

thumb|Latinx, gender-neutral term used to describe people who are of Latin American origin or descent