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‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year • Dec. 9, 2024, 1:38 PM ET (AP)

Merriam-Webster dictionary, any of various lexicographic works published by the G. & C. Merriam Co.—renamed Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, in 1982—which is located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and which since 1964 has been a subsidiary of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Among the dictionaries are Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language (1961), which contains more than 476,000 entries and provides the most extensive record of American English now available, and the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (2003). (Read H.L. Mencken’s 1926 Britannica essay on American English.) The G. & C. Merriam Co., founded in 1831, acquired the rights after the death ...(100 of 239 words)

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