2021
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Vaccine
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Cicada
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Perseverance
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Insurrection
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Detailed explanation-1: -Merriam-Webster’s word of the year 2021 is vaccine.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jon Blistein. Dictionary giant Merriam-Webster released its Word of the Year contenders, with “vaccine” taking the top spot, followed by words like “woke, ” “insurrection, ” and “cicada.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Vax is our 2021 Word of the Year. When our lexicographers began digging into our English language corpus data it quickly became apparent that vax was a particularly striking term. A relatively rare word in our corpus until this year, by September it was over 72 times more frequent than at the same time last year.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is a statistical measure of what sent people to the dictionary in the past year. The WOTYs for the past several years were ‘vaccine’ (2021), ‘pandemic’ (2020), and ‘they’ (2019).