Several picks. I’ll add others as I find them:
From the Australian National Dictionary Centre: kwaussie.
From Cambridge Dictionary: populism.
From Collins Dictionary: fake news.
From Dictionary.com: complicit.
From Merriam-Webster: feminism. M-W’s runners-up: complicit, recuse, empathy, dotard, syzygy, gyro, federalism, hurricane, gaffe.
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December 15: From Oxford Dictionaries: youthquake. The runners-up: Antifa, broflake, gorpcore, kompromat, Milkshake Duck, newsjacking, unicorn, white fragility.
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January 6, 2018: From the American Dialect Society: fake news, defined as “disinformation or falsehoods presented as real news” and “actual news that is claimed to be untrue.”
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Words of the year
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Can you use those runners-up in a sentence? :)
With pleasure:
“In the name of federalism, show some empathy, or at least some syzygy, you complicit gaffe-prone dotard,” the hurricane warned, “before I turn you into a gyro and recuse myself!”
I would like to see other efforts.
Make that a gyro platter. I just made a post inviting more sentences.
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