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    BYLeanne Italie and The Associated Press
    November 28, 2022
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    BYKylie Logan
    November 1, 2021
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    BYLucas Laursen
    December 17, 2018
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    BYErik Sherman
    November 26, 2018
  • Ukraine's green parties activists protes
    Toxic Edges Out Gaslighting And Cakeism To Become Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of 2018
    BYLucas Laursen
    November 15, 2018
  • President Trump Departs The White House
    This Is Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year
    BYEmily Price
    November 27, 2017
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    Leadership‘Dumpster Fire’ Is the American Dialect Society’s 2016 Word of the Year
    BYKaty Steinmetz/TIME and TIME
    January 7, 2017
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    November 17, 2015

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