Merriam-Webster has announced 'polarization' as its 'Word of the Year.' We all must stand together to fight division and ...

In a conversation with young adults about brain rot and polarization– Oxford and Merriam-Webster's respective picks– they ...

Is it any surprise then that the Merriam-Webster word of the year is “polarization”? “Polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” said Peter Sokolowski ...

Michael Sean Winters looks back on a year when it was tempting to write about unfolding events in politics as if it were the ...

There are already many nominations for 2024's word of the year. The right pick is the name of the world's most controversial ...

Given the events of the year that just concluded, it’s no wonder that the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year — announced early last ...

Between endless doomscrolling and nonstop negative headlines, a New Mexico political science professor said it's no surprise ...

The choices, and the sometimes stark differences between them, provide a glimpse into how different regions’ experienced the ...

The famous American dictionary publisher on Monday announced that “polarization”—defined as “division into two sharply ...

Merriam-Webster’s decision to name “polarization” as 2024’s ‘word of the year’ certainly feels spot on. Of course Americans ...

They both happened on the same day. First I read that Merriam-Webster selected "polarization" as the 2024 Word of the Year.

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.” ...