{"id":1066191,"date":"2021-11-29T20:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1066191"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:32:00","slug":"merriam-webster-announces-word-of-the-year-for-2021-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merriam-webster-announces-word-of-the-year-for-2021-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Merriam-Webster Announces Word of the Year for 2021: Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmerriam-webster-announces-word-of-the-year-for-2021-vaccine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1066191&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1333262940-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Merriam-Webster online dictionary recently announced its Word of the Year for 2021, which is \u201cvaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn everyday use, words are useful tools that communicate assertions, ideas, aspirations, and uncertainties. But they can also become vehicles for ideological conflict,\u201d the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/words-at-play\/word-of-the-year\/vaccine\">read<\/a>, claiming that was what happened to the term \u201cvaccine\u201d throughout this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.0133779264214\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The word \u2018vaccine\u2019<br \/>\u2013 saw a 601% increase in lookups this year over last.<br \/>\u2013 had continual spikes of attention through the year.<br \/>\u2013 was about much more than medicine in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Vaccine\u2019 is our 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WordOfTheYear?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WordOfTheYear<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i7QlIv15M3\">https:\/\/t.co\/i7QlIv15M3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MerriamWebster\/status\/1465302223517323265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201cpromising medical solution\u201d to the coronavirus pandemic evolved into a political argument and \u201csource of division,\u201d according to the article.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest science story of our time quickly became the biggest debate in our country, and the word at the center of both stories is <em>vaccine,\u201d <\/em>it continued:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p>Hopes for cures and treatments of COVID-19 began as soon as the disease began to spread. Research into a new kind of vaccine containing messenger RNA, or mRNA, genetic material rather than an inactivated form of the virus was accelerated. After decades of studies conducted for application to diseases such as influenza, Ebola, and rabies, this new type of mRNA vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus was rapidly developed, tested, and manufactured for broad use, with the first doses being administered in the U.S. in December 2020.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Use of a vaccine that causes an immune response in \u201can entirely new way\u201d required the online dictionary to update and expand its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/vaccine\">entry<\/a> for the term.<\/p>\n<p>The definition of the word read, \u201cA preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body\u2019s immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease,\u201d according to the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Interest in the definition grew over the past year, and searches for \u201cvaccine\u201d increased 601 percent year over year from 2020, the Merriam-Webster article stated.<\/p>\n<p>The website also listed the words insurrection, perseverance, woke, infrastructure, and cisgender as having experienced a rise in lookups.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2020, the dictionary apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/04\/merriam-webster-dictionary-adds-definition-female-having-gender-identity-opposite-male\/\">updated<\/a> its definition of \u201cfemale\u201d to include \u201chaving a gender identity that is opposite of male,\u201d which effectively erased the concept of biological sex, according to Breitbart News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Merriam-Webster online dictionary recently announced its Word of the Year for 2021, which is \u201cvaccine.\u201d \u201cIn everyday use, words are useful tools that communicate assertions, ideas, aspirations, and uncertainties. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}