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Merriam-Webster Asks What Words Should Be Used More In 2024, And We're Speechless

New year, new words? The dictionary company seeks help in defining new paths of discourse.
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Since 2024 is a new year, maybe people should use new words ― or at least different ones.

That was the thought behind a post Monday from Merriam-Webster on social media asking its followers what words they would like to use more often this year.

This comes a few weeks after the dictionary publisher declared “authentic” as its 2023 word of the year.

Merriam-Webster offered a suggestion and said it wanted to “really lean into ‘edifice’” in the coming year.

Many people offered suggestions, and many of the responses were unspeakably clever.

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