The dictionary publisher said Americans from competing tribes looked up the definition to better understand divided politics at home and worldwide. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief If you’ve been ...

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 ...

Merriam-Webster has named “Polarisation” its 2024 top ‘Word of the Year.’ Defined as “division into two sharply distinct opposites,” the term captures the essence of a world grappling with societal, ...

The term has been most frequently used in the US before elections to describe race relations, politics, ideology. Polarisation, a word that describes the division of two sharply distinct opposites, is ...

Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s meant to encapsulate ...