Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year is “polarization” which was heard around the world during this year’s heated election season. Polarization was joined by other popular searched ...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is one that the dictionary suggests unifies both sides of the aisle. The dictionary ...

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Alamy Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year is “rizz ... "Rizz" even received the Merriam-Webster stamp of approval in September, becoming one of 690 new words to get added to the renowned ...

The 2020 prize for American dictionary Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic. The term had the most online dictionary lookups of any word, Merriam-Webster said ...

“Gaslighting” – mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful – is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Lookups for the word on merriam-webster.com increased 1,740 per cent ...

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This year's Word of the Year could also be a word of warning. The term “brain rot” tops the list for 2024, according to the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, reflecting growing ...

depending on who you ask — coloring many unsurprised that the Merriam-Webster word of the year is “polarization.” The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country and ...

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