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The newer meaning of the word has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which now defines it as being "aware of and actively attentive to important facts ...
The Acolyte made its Nielsen steaming Top 10 debut with the release of its first two episodes, which racked up nearly 500 million minutes viewed. Two weeks later, it fell out of the Top 10 ranking ...
The word "woke" is tossed around a lot in political and social debates all around the country. It's ramping up as Election Day draws near. ... the definition of the word has evolved and come to ...
Former US Congresswoman Marcia Fudge holding a T-shirt reading "Stay Woke: Vote" in 2018. Woke, the African-American English synonym for the General American English word awake, has since the 1930s or earlier been used to refer to awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans, often in the construction stay woke.
“I think [woke is] an unusable word — although it is used all the time — because it doesn’t actually mean anything,” Tony Thorne, the author of “Dictionary of Contemporary Slang ...
A March 2021 poll by the Harvard Center for American Political Studies and the Harris Poll found that 64% of respondents viewed "a growing cancel culture" as a threat to their freedom, while the other 36% did not. 36% of respondents said that cancel culture is a big problem, 32% called it a moderate problem, 20% called it a small problem, and ...
The terms womyn and womxn have been criticized for being unnecessary or confusing neologisms, due to the uncommonness of mxn to describe men. [8] [9] [10]The word womyn has been criticized by transgender people [11] [12] due to its usage in trans-exclusionary radical feminist circles which exclude trans women from identifying into the category of "woman", particularly the term womyn-born womyn.
While there was some agreement on the definition of “woke,” Americans are more sharply divided over whether the word is a compliment or an insult, pollsters said. Forty percent said it is an ...