Following a contentious presidential election, Merriam-Webster has chosen its word of the year for 2024: “polarization.” The ...

Sharp divides have seemed to define America lately—and Merriam-Webster just made it official. The famous American dictionary ...

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word 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 ...

“The basic job of the dictionary is to tell the truth about words,” the Merriam-Webster editor continued. “We’ve had dictionaries of English for 420 years and it’s only been in the last ...

Polarisation, a word that describes the division of two sharply distinct opposites, is the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s word of the year. “Polarisation means division, but it’s a very specif ...

Forbes, meanwhile, warned that in workplaces, “cultural polarization is becoming a pressing challenge,” Merriam-Webster wrote in announcing the selection. “The online dictionary tells us ...

The historical museum welcomes the Spanish-speaking community to learn about the man who introduced the first American ...