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No surprises here — pandemic is Merriam-Webster’s top word of 2020

30 Nov 2020, 13:11

No surprises here — pandemic is Merriam-Webster’s top word of 2020

Merriam-Webster has announced its word of the year and not so surprisingly, it’s ‘pandemic.’
With the coronavirus pandemic having infected over 63 million people worldwide, the COVID-19 virus has been the only thing on people’s minds this year.
Earlier this month, the Oxford dictionary had announced that no one word could sum up 2020. Instead, it had gone on to release “words of the unprecedented year.”

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