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Hello, communicators:
Merriam-Webster has announced “pandemic” as its word of the year:
It's the story of the year and now the word of the year.
'Pandemic' is our 2020 #WordOfTheYear. https://t.co/ZmB7xfRWko
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 30, 2020
In a blog post, Merriam-Webster wrote:
This has been a year unlike any other (the word unprecedented also had a significant spike in March), and pandemic is the word that has connected the worldwide medical emergency to the political response and to our personal experience of it all.
Other top words for 2020 include “coronavirus,” “Mamba,” “kraken,” “quarantine,” “antebellum,” “malarkey” and more.
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