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Merriam-Webster's word of the year is polarization: See more words that defined 2024The definition of polarization ... Outside of Merriam-Webster, Oxford also named its Word of the Year recently: "brain rot." The noun is used to describe the deterioration of a person's mental ...
Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, told us what criteria a word needs to meet in order to be added to the dictionary.
Last year, the American publisher Merriam-Webster introduced 690 new words to its dictionary, ranging from the fictional slang term “padawan” to refer to a Jedi apprentice to the “deadname ...
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