Merriam-Webster's word of the year and list of other top-searched words were influenced by politics, Taylor Swift, TikTok and ...

In 2003, Merriam-Webster decided to make “democracy” its first word of the year. Since then, the word — which, of course, ...

The famous American dictionary publisher on Monday announced that “polarization”—defined as “division into two sharply ...

Polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at ...

The winning word beat out finalists such as "demure," "pander," "totality," "fortnight," "allision" and "democracy" ...

The dictionary publisher said Americans from competing tribes looked up the definition to better understand divided politics ...

The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country and sent shockwaves across the world — or were cause ...

The term has been most frequently used in the US before elections to describe race relations, politics, ideology.

Following a contentious presidential election, is it any surprise the Merriam-Webster word of the year is “polarization”?

Merriam-Webster, which logs 100 million pageviews a month on its site, chooses its word of the year based on data, tracking a ...

With less than a month left until January, Merriam-Webster has chosen its 2024 Word of the Year, one that has often defined ...

Merriam-Webster’s list continues a tradition of reflecting cultural trends, with past picks including “authentic” in 2023, ...