Sharp divides have seemed to define America lately—and Merriam-Webster just made it official ... that the dictionary publisher said “stood out” in search volume on its website this year: ...

The shockwaves sent by the outcome of this year’s US presidential election can be felt in Merriam ... and Oxford Dictionary electing ‘Brain rot’ as their official 2024 pick.

Merriam-Webster has just unveiled its word of the year for 2024. On Monday (December 9), the publisher known for its American Dictionary announced that “polarization” was the word of the year.

Merriam-Webster, which logs 100 million pageviews a month on its site, chooses its word of the ... “It’s always been important to me that the dictionary serve as a kind of neutral and ...