Archive copies of the Collegiate Dictionary rest on a bookshelf at the headquarters of the Merriam-Webster dictionary publisher in Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year is ...

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s ...

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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