'Vaccine' chosen as Merriam-Webster 2021 word of the year
With an expanded definition to reflect the times, Merriam-Webster has declared an omnipresent truth as its 2021 word of the year: vaccine.
바카라 게임 웹사이트This was a word that was extremely high in our data every single day in 2021,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor-at-large, told The Associated Press ahead of Monday's announcement.
바카라 게임 웹사이트It really represents two different stories. One is the science story, which is this remarkable speed with which the vaccines were developed. But there's also the debates regarding policy, politics and political affiliation. It's one word that carries these two huge stories,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he said.
The selection follows 바카라 게임 웹사이트vax바카라 게임 웹사이트 as word of the year from the folks who publish the Oxford English Dictionary. And it comes after Merriam-Webster chose 바카라 게임 웹사이트pandemic바카라 게임 웹사이트 as tops in lookups last year on its online site.
바카라 게임 웹사이트The pandemic was the gun going off and now we have the aftereffects,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Sokolowski said.
At Merriam-Webster, increased 601% over 2020, when the first U.S. shot was administered in New York in December after quick development, and months of speculation and discussion over efficacy. The world's first jab occurred earlier that month in the UK.
Compared to 2019, when there was little urgency or chatter about vaccines, Merriam-Webster logged an increase of 1,048% in lookups this year. Debates over inequitable distribution, vaccine mandates and boosters kept interest high, Sokolowski said. So did vaccine hesitancy and friction over vaccine passports.
The word 바카라 게임 웹사이트vaccine바카라 게임 웹사이트 wasn't birthed in a day, or due to a single pandemic. The first known use stretches back to 1882 but references pop up earlier related to fluid from cowpox pustules used in inoculations, Sokolowski said. It was borrowed from the New Latin 바카라 게임 웹사이트vaccina,바카라 게임 웹사이트 which goes back to Latin's feminine 바카라 게임 웹사이트vaccinus,바카라 게임 웹사이트 meaning 바카라 게임 웹사이트of or from a cow.바카라 게임 웹사이트 The Latin for cow is 바카라 게임 웹사이트vacca,바카라 게임 웹사이트 a word that might be akin to the Sanskrit 바카라 게임 웹사이트vasa," according to Merriam-Webster.
Inoculation, on the other hand, dates to 1714, in one sense referring to the act of injecting an 바카라 게임 웹사이트inoculum.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Earlier this year, Merriam-Webster added to its online entry for 바카라 게임 웹사이트vaccine바카라 게임 웹사이트 to cover all the talk of mRNA vaccines, or messenger vaccines such as those for COVID-19 developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
While other dictionary companies choose words of the year by committee, Merriam-Webster bases its selection on lookup data, paying close attention to spikes and, more recently, year-over-year increases in searches after weeding out evergreens. The company has been declaring a word of the year since 2008. Among its runners-up in the word biography of 2021:
INSURRECTION: Interest was driven by the deadly Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol. Arrests continue, as do congressional hearings over the attack by supporters of President Donald Trump. Some of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s allies have resisted subpoenas, including Steve Bannon.
Searches for the word increased by 61,000% over 2020, Sokolowksi said.
INFRASTRUCTURE: President Joe Biden was able to sign a bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. When Biden proposed help with broadband access, eldercare and preschool, conversation changed from not only roads and bridges but 바카라 게임 웹사이트figurative infrastructure,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Sokolowski said.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Many people asked, what is infrastructure if it바카라 게임 웹사이트s not made out of steel or concrete? Infrastructure, in Latin, means underneath the structure,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he said.
PERSEVERANCE: It's the name of NASA's latest Mars rover. It landed Feb. 18, 2021. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Perseverance is the most sophisticated rover NASA has ever sent to the Red Planet, with a name that embodies NASA바카라 게임 웹사이트s passion, and our nation바카라 게임 웹사이트s capability, to take on and overcome challenges,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the space agency said.
The name was thought up by Alexander Mather, a seventh-grader at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. He participated in an essay contest organized by NASA. He was one of 28,000 K-12 students to submit entries.
NOMAD: The word had its moment with the 2020 release of the film 바카라 게임 웹사이트Nomadland.바카라 게임 웹사이트 It went on to win three Oscars in April 2021, including best picture, director (Chloé Zhao) and actress (Frances McDormand). Zhao became the first woman of color to win best director.
The AP's film writer Jake Coyle called the indie success 바카라 게임 웹사이트a plain-spoken meditation on solitude, grief and grit. He wrote that it 바카라 게임 웹사이트struck a chord in a pandemic-ravaged year. It made for an unlikely Oscar champ: A film about people who gravitate to the margins took center stage."
Other words in Merriam-Webster's Top 10: Cicada (we had an invasion), guardian (the Cleveland Indians became the Cleveland Guardians), meta (the lofty new name of Facebook's parent company), cisgender (a gender identity that corresponds to one's sex assigned at birth), woke (charged with politics and political correctness) and murraya (a tropical tree and the word that won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee for 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde).