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Merriam-Webster chooses vaccine as word of the year
by The Manila Times
Nov 30, 2021 12:17 am

NEW YORK: With an expanded definition to reflect the times, Merriam-Webster has declared an omnipresent truth as its 2021 word of the year: vaccine.

'This was a word that was extremely high in our data every single day in 2021,' Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor-at-large, told The Associated Press ahead of Monday's announcement.

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