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A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word is “polarization.”
Merriam-Webster has just unveiled its word of the year for 2024.. On Monday (December 9), the publisher known for its American Dictionary announced that “polarization” was the word of the year ...
Merriam-Webster's dictionaries are displayed for sale at a Barnes & Noble store on January 11, 2024 in Austin, Texas. The word was also used quite often in media reports surrounding the 2024 ...
“Polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press ahead of Monday's announcement. “Polarization means that we are tending toward the extremes rather than toward the center.”
For example, the 2003 and 2004 lists were determined by online hits to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Online Thesaurus and to Merriam-WebsterCollegiate.com. [5] [6] In 2006 and 2007, Merriam-Webster changed this practice, and the list was determined by an online poll among words that were suggested by visitors to the site. [4]
Sanewashing is the act of minimizing the perceived radical aspects of a person or idea in order to make them appear more acceptable to a wider audience. The term was initially coined in online discussions about defunding the police in 2020, but has come to greater prominence in critique of media practices relating to Donald Trump in the 2024 United States presidential election.
Here’s what to know about the dictionary publisher’s Word of the Year—and other most-searched terms.
North American tournament Scrabble currently uses the sixth edition of NWL, officially called NWL2023. The NASPA Games Dictionary Committee created this version in mid-2023 and it took effect on February 29, 2024; [2] it is the third version published autonomously by NASPA rather than by Merriam-Webster under its copyright.