On Monday, Merriam-Webster announced its word of the year for 2024.
In a year defined by sharp political and cultural divisions, it comes as no surprise that Merriam-Webster has named 'polarization' as its 2024 Word of the Year.What Is the 2024 Word of the Year?'Polarization,' most commonly used to mean 'causing strong disagreement between opposing factions or groupings,' captured the mood of a country grappling with contentious issues and a fiercely divided electorate.
'It's always been important to me that the dictionary serve as a kind of neutral and objective arbiter of meaning for everybody,' Sokolowski told the AP. 'It's a kind of backstop for meaning in an era of fake news, alternative facts, whatever you want to say about the value of a word's meaning in the culture.
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