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Year-end lists are coming out — starting with Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year, Hope writes.
The winner is: authentic.
Zoom in: Authentic is hard to define, Merriam-Webster says, and is often connected to identity.
Zoom out: Other words that were searched a ton this year thanks to the news cycle: