{"id":68724,"date":"2018-12-17T15:53:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/?p=25781"},"modified":"2018-12-17T15:53:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:53:22","slug":"merriam-webster-names-justice-its-word-of-the-year-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/merriam-webster-names-justice-its-word-of-the-year-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Merriam-Webster Names ‘Justice’ its Word of the Year, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Justice” — the crux of some of the most gripping stories of the past 12 months — has been recognized for its central place in the public consciousness.<\/div>\n
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US publishing company Merriam-Webster has named the noun its Word of the Year for 2018, after it saw a 74% spike in lookups compared with 2017.<\/div>\n
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“The concept of justice was at the center of many of our national debates in the past year: racial justice, social justice, criminal justice, economic justice,”\u00a0the company said\u00a0when explaining its choice.<\/div>\n
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“In any conversation about these topics, the question of just what exactly we mean when we use the term justice is relevant, and part of the discussion,” it said.<\/div>\n
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“Justice” was among the most-consulted words on Merriam-Webster’s website throughout the year, the company said, and saw jumps in search volume in the wake of numerous news stories.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The move follows Oxford Dictionaries’ decision\u00a0to crown “toxic” its word of the year<\/a>, and\u00a0Dictionary.com<\/a>‘s\u00a0selection of “misinformation”<\/a>\u00a0as its winner.<\/div>\n
It comes days after Trump’s former lawyer\u00a0Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison<\/a>, and in a week when\u00a0sweeping criminal justice reforms<\/a>\u00a0look set to dominate the US Senate’s agenda.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Justice” takes the Word of the Year title from last year’s winner, “feminism.”<\/div>\n
In addition to its top pick, the company also shone a spotlight on 10 words that saw jumps in interest in 2018.<\/div>\n
“Nationalism” saw an 8,000% spike in lookups in late October after Trump controversially\u00a0described himself as a nationalist\u00a0at a rally in Houston.<\/div>\n
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“Pansexual” attracted attention after singer Janelle Mon\u00e1e self-identified with the term in an interview in Rolling Stone in April, while “lodestar” saw an increase when\u00a0the rarely used noun convinced some commentators\u00a0that Vice President Mike Pence was the anonymous writer of an explosive New York Times opinion piece.<\/div>\n
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Other words that saw large jumps in look-ups included “Laurel,” which was at the heart of\u00a0a viral debate over a short piece of audio\u00a0in May, and “respect,” which spiked in searches after the\u00a0death of the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin, in August.<\/div>\n
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It’s not unusual for a political term to grab the top spot, though — “socialism,” “austerity” and “bailout” have all been crowned by the company in the past decade.<\/div>\n
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Culled: CNN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Justice” — the crux of some of the most gripping stories of the past 12 months — has been recognized for its central place in the public consciousness. US publishing company Merriam-Webster has named the noun its Word of the Year for 2018, after it saw a 74% spike in lookups compared with 2017. “The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t