Merriam-Webster; 'Justice' is our 2018 #WordOfTheYear.
Beautiful that this word was chosen.
For a number of reasons and meanings, justice was on the minds of many in 2018.
Justice is our 2018 #WordOfTheYear.
Top of mind: Justice is Merriam-Websters word of the year
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By LEANNE ITALIE yesterday
NEW YORK (AP) Racial justice. Obstruction of justice. Social justice. The Justice Department. Merriam-Webster has chosen justice as its 2018 word of the year, driven by the churning news cycle over months and months.
The word follows toxic, picked by Oxford Dictionaries, and misinformation, plucked by Dictonary.com.
Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Websters editor at large, told The Associated Press ahead of Mondays announcement that justice consistently bubbled into the top 20 or 30 lookups on the companys website, spiking at times due to specific events but also skating close to the surface for much of the year.
While its one of those common words people likely know how to spell and use correctly in a sentence, Sokolowski pointed to other reasons that drive search traffic. Among them is an attempt to focus a train of thought around a philosophical problem, or to seek aspirational motivation. Such well-known words are often among the most looked up every year, including those that are slightly abstract, including love, he said.
The designation for justice came soon after President Trumps one-time fixer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes that included arranging the payment of hush money to conceal his boss alleged sexual affairs. He told a judge he agreed time and again to cover up Trumps dirty deeds out of blind loyalty................................
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In this Dec. 12, 2018, photo, "justice" is displayed in a Merriam-Webster dictionary in New York. Merriam-Webster has chosen "justice" as its 2018 word of the year, driven by the churning news cycle and President Trump's Twitter feed. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)