As a vocabulary fanatic, this is an exciting time of year for me, because Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has released its top word of the year, along with a shortlist of finalists. These are words ...

It was announced in a tweet, saying "The truth is, the #WordOfTheYear2018 is misinformation. Because words matter." The word made a major comeback in 2018 due to the large amount of misinformation ...

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Racial justice. Obstruction of justice. Social justice. The Justice Department. Merriam-Webster has chosen "justice" as its 2018 word of the year, driven by the churning news cycle over months and ...

Misinformation was chosen as Dictionary.com's 2018 word of the year to serve as a "call to action" to be vigilant in the battle against fake news, flat earthers and anti-vaxxers. By The Associated ...

And when it comes to the words that, by his measure, helped define that landscape in the summer of 2018, Sokolowski says the loss of two American titans loomed large. When pop-icon Aretha Franklin ...

“Justice,” “toxic” and “misinformation”: These are the 2018 “words of the year,” according to Merriam-Webster, the Oxford Dictionary and Dictionary.com, respectively. What do these words say about the ...

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The word that best captures the “ethos, mood, or preoccupations” of 2018 is “toxic,” according to Oxford Dictionaries, which this week crowned the acetic adjective its word of the year. “Toxic” was ...

Robert Mueller’s investigation of US President Donald Trump; Brett Kavanaugh’s tense hearings in Congress; the fight for social, racial and gender equality: the past year has seen an absorbing and ...