Merriam-Webster’s 2024 Word of the Year is polarization. Merriam-Webster chooses its word of the year based on data, and tracked a rise in search and usage of the word. Other words or terms of the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As 2024 comes to a close, Merriam-Webster has chosen polarization as the Word of the Year. A dictionary is not exactly a public ...

If you've been looking up the definition of "polarization" to help explain politics in the U.S. and abroad, you're far from alone. Merriam-Webster on Monday named its 2024 Word of the Year as ...