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

“Polarization means that we are tending toward the extremes rather than toward the center,” he says. Merriam-Webster chooses each word of the year based on lookup data—how often a word was ...

The word, the book company reported, is polarization, and it was one of the most searched words of 2024. “Search volume on Merriam-Webster.com throughout the year reflected the desire of ...

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

In 2024, there's only one Word of the Year: "Sanewashing," which is defined as attempts by the media to normalize the ...

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

Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words. While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many ...

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

Esteemed dictionaries have revealed their top words of the year for 2024. Social media trends and a tense political climate ...

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 ...