By David Astle
Publication Date: 2025-11-21 07:00:00
As a testament to language change, let’s delve into the world of modern English. Alarm bells should be ringing in your head by now. There’s something unusual about the first sentence, but what? Maybe it’s the strange metaphor, because research is reserved for the earth, the bags or even the past – and not the tapestries.
Or perhaps the fault is the tone, the prose is a little purple. As a note, let Dr. Meet Jeremy Nguyen, a senior researcher and lecturer at Swinburne Business School, who last year combed through around 39 million citations from the biomedical literature looking for examples of delve.
Robot writing has invaded the system – and AI in particular has its telltale words. Like “remarkable.”Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Yes, an academic word in “Delve,” a word beloved by chatbots, as Nguyen discovered, along with “testament” and “tapestry” — the AI trifecta when it comes to medical screeds. The survey found that all three saw an increase in usage, with Delve appearing in 0.5 percent…
