'Vaccine' Merriam-Webster's word of the year

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Updated At : 01:08 PM Nov 30, 2021 IST

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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, said on Monday. AP

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