“It’s always been important to me that the dictionary serve as a kind of neutral and objective arbiter of meaning for everybody,” Sokolowski said. “It’s a kind of backstop for meaning in ...

“It’s always been important to me that the dictionary serve as a kind of neutral and objective arbiter of meaning for everybody,” Sokolowski said. “It’s a kind of backstop for meaning in ...

Ironically, it is something on which many would agree. The dictionary and publishing company announced the word of the year and list of other top-searched words that defined the year Monday ...

The dictionary and publishing company announced ... Once an obscure, primarily British word meaning "a period of 14 days; two weeks," like all things Swift, it soared in searches.

The definition of polarization, according to Merriam-Webster, is "division into two sharply distinct opposites … a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society no ...