Tag Archives: ‘Pandemic’ chosen as Word of the Year

NEW YORK: The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic. The term had the most online dictionary lookups of any word, Merriam-Webster said on its website, after a year in which at least 1.4 million people globally have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Sometimes a single word defines an era, and it’s fitting …

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