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The Word Of The Decade
The word of the decade has been chosen.
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You might think that social media would determine the word of the decade. Some of the slang that had been recycled online or made up on platforms like Twitter might have been a contender.
"THEY" has been chosen as the word of the decade!
The American Dialect Society is out with its Word of the Decade.
Singular "they" was recognized for its growing use to refer to somebody who identifies as nonbinary.
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