Sentences with phrase «own word of the year»

The happy faced emoji spewing tears of joy isn't just the «word of the year,» it's a certifiable craze — and one that brands have quickly moved to capitalize on.

Instead, the Word of the Year is chosen because, in the opinion of Oxford Dictionaries» lexicographers and consultants, it is «judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year and to have lasting potential as a word of cultural significance.»

Past Word of the Year winners confirm my suspicions.

The Oxford English Dictionary declared «post-truth» the word of the year — the notion that «objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.»

Each year, the esteemed folks at the Oxford Dictionaries crown a «Word of the Year.»

But even if the Word of the Year quickly fades into obscurity — actually, particularly if it does — the fact that it was selected in the first place captures a distinct moment in our culture as reflected through a group of lexicographers and dictionary consultants.

When it comes to trends in fiscal crisis intervention, Merriam - Webster's annual Words of the Year list is a surprising source of insight.

«Vape» was crowned Oxford Dictionaries word of the year, «culture» nabbed Webster - Merriam's top spot, while the Global Language Monitor went the unconventional route of selecting the heart emoji for its top word of 2014.

In terms of popularity, the heart emoji was followed by «hashtag» and then «vape» — which was also named Oxford Dictionaries» 2014 Word of the Year.

For the first time, the Oxford Dictionaries» Word of the Year isn't a word at all, but an emoji — the «Face with Tears of Joy,» to be exact.

Udland argues that Merriam - Webster's word of the year might rightfully translate into the «chart of the year» for market watchers.

November 16, 2017, Austin, Texas — Truth has been named the 2017 Word of the Year for Global English (#WOTY2017) by the Global Language Monitor, in its eighteenth annual global analysis.

But it wasn't until 2017 that Oxford Dictionaries shortlisted it as one of their «Words of the Year.»

If language is a gauge of progress, there may be cause for optimism in the «word of the year» Merriam - Webster chose for 2017.

Oxford Dictionaries» Word of the Year for 2016 is «post-truth.»

It's been such a joy to hear from readers who have done just that — contributing to our Women of Valor series, making «valor» their word of the year, honoring their wives and sisters and friends as women of valor, even getting «eshet chayil» tattoos!

And this is no esoteric «idea» — there is teeth and dirt and time and habits to this word of the year, I know that now.

The word truthiness was named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society.

Every year, Webster takes it upon itself to come up with a Word of the Year, utilizing some mysterious alchemy that sets one word apart from the pack.

So many questions, but we don't get to choose the word of the year (The runner - up is «nostalgia» which also seems just about as old as time itself, but at least it's entered sort of a boom season, so that makes a little more sense).

A local church I knew of had corporately encouraged their attendees to ask God for a «Word of the Year» in order to bring a sense of focus to the year ahead.

A month later Oxford Dictionaries named «post-truth» as its international word of the year.

Oxford has crowned its annual word of the year, and it sort of makes sense.

Making a long list of resolutions doesn't always work for me so the last two years, I've done a «word of the year.»

I'll include a link to this in my next consumption update on my blog (I think this is the hardest word of the year I've ever chosen!)

NOURISH has been my favourite Word of the Year to date and I'm relishing in it more so than ever this month.

The German joked in December that hamstring was «the rubbish word of the year», according to Sky Sports.

In my previous post, I said I'd be sharing my Word of the Year for 2016.

I am so excited to help spread the word of this year's first babywearing, WEAR conference held by MommyCon!

I first discovered Lisa Leonard the month after my daughter, Kate, was born when I stumbled upon her Word of the Year necklace.

«Word power» begins with a bang when our children turn 2, and their word of the year is «no,» which not coincidentally, mirrors our own word of the year.

Ed Miliband's «squeezed middle» phrase has been chosen as «word of the year» by Oxford University Press in the UK and US.

It is a term surely making an early run for Oxford Dictionary's word of the year.

His «squeezed middle» won OED's 2011 Word of the Year.

Voted word of the year by the linguists of the American Dialect Society in 2007, this had to be the only occasion on which the mention of the word drew acclaim.

Other words that were being considered for Word of the Year included «gleek,» «crowdsourcing,» «vuvuzela,» and «retweet.»

The Oxford dictionaries declared «post-truth» word of the year and Donald Trump won the US presidential election with a campaign that stressed that American society is in decline.

Truthiness, Merriam - Webster's 2006 word of the year, is «the quality of seeming to be true according to one's intuition... without regard to logic [or] factual evidence.»

The Oxford Dictionaries named «post-truth» as their 2016 Word of the Year.

Last year, «selfie» was added to the Oxford Dictionary and named «word of the year» or 2013, in an acknowledgement from one of the most trusted sources that the selfie was more than just a trend.

I used this word of the year generator to generate a word I will plan to focus on.

Can you choose a word of the year and post it somewhere where you'll see it throughout the 12 months ahead?

This is spot on with my word of the year post coming later this week so I just may have to link back.

Flourish just fits so perfectly with so much of what I'm doing lately... and it feels like such a great word to follow my 2016 word of the year which was «purposeful» (or purpose).

I realized just this past weekend that I never shared with you guys my 2017 word of the year.

My word of the year 2017 was «Manifest» (Read about it here) and I couldn't be any more grateful for all the things that I accomplished and manifested.

In 2014, I established saying yes as my word of the year.

I've done my Word of the Year for the last few years (2017 and 2015 for sure), and 2018 is no exception.

I keep seeing this «word of the year» and honestly didn't think anything of it until I noticed more bloggers doing it so I guess my words would have to be: patience, motivation and confidence.

My word of the year is control which I will go into further detail about later this week.