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Oxford Dictionaries chose a single word to sum up the mood of 2018: poisonous.
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The British publisher announced Thursday that "toxic" had foiled words such as "gaslighting", "incel" and "techlash" to become the word of the year 2018.
"By revisiting this year in language, we have met several times the word" toxic "used to describe a growing set of conditions that we all face," said Thursday Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Dictionaries, in a communicated.
In 2018, Oxford Dictionaries found a 45% increase in the number of searches for the word "toxic" on oxforddictionaries.com. The publisher attributed the increase in the number of surveys to the fact that the word was used in a wide range of contexts during the year.
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"By calling everything from patriarchy rooted in the perpetual scream of polarizing political rhetoric," toxic "seems to reflect a growing sense of the extreme, and sometimes radioactivity, aspects of modern life," said Grathwohl.
The word was often associated with terms such as "substance," "environment," and "culture," according to Oxford Dictionaries.
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"Our body data show that after" chemical "," masculinity "is the most commonly used word along with this year's" toxic "term, according to the Oxford Dictionaries website. "With the #MeToo movement that has shone the spotlight on toxic masculinity and on landmark political events such as the hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee Brett Kavanaugh, which sparked an international debate, the term" toxic masculinity "has truly taken hold root in consciousness in 2018. "
Last year, Oxford Dictionaries chose the word "youth quake", which means "a significant cultural, political or social change resulting from the actions or influence of youth", to quote his words from # 39; year.
The word of the 2016 year of the editor was "xenophobia".
