Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "polarization"

Biden-Harris Era Marked With 'Polarization' as Word of the Year - Real News Now

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, and several other political heavyweights assembled in New York city on the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, 2024. This notable gathering occurs amidst political shockwaves and heightened temperatures that reflected the outcome of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. The turbulence was such that it inspired Merriam-Webster to announce ‘polarization’ as their word of th…

Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "polarization"

The enshittification of social media left her doomscrolling through a polarized feed, her brainrot deepening with every bratty meme war. Enshittification, brainrot, brat and now polarization have been selected by major dictionaries as their word of the year. Merriam-Webster reports that it selected the word over contenders such as demure, totality and allision. — Read the rest The post Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "polarization" appear…

As every time Cristina Kirchner looks at her head, the word “polarization” reappeared in the toolbox of political analysis, this time to say that Javier Milei deliberately raises the profile of the former president because, the hypothesis says, he wants her as an electoral rival next year. It doesn’t matter that there is no source or the government itself denies it: the category flies the same, it is imposed. It only happens, curiously, against …

The words of 2024: Manifest, brain rot and polarization

‘Polarization,’ ‘brain rot,’ ‘brat’: 2024 words of the year point to the power, perils and ephemeral nature of digital life

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 the zeitgeist of the prior year. In 2003, the publisher of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary began bestowing…

Merriam-Webster has determined polarization to be the word of 2024