Words at Play : Word of the Year Retrospective
In 2013 the word science saw a 176% increase in lookups over the previous year, and stayed a top lookup throughout the year.
A wide variety of discussions centered on science that year, from climate change to educational policy. We saw heated debates about 'phony' science, or whether science held all the answers.
"It is a word that is connected to broad cultural dichotomies: observation and intuition, evidence and tradition," says Peter Sokolowski, Editor-at-Large at Merriam-Webster.
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