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Events like the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling led to a new definition of "identity," so Dictionary.com made the term its word of the year. (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year Thankfully Isn’t an Emoji

The site's word of the year is "identity," because the word had taken on new meaning in discussions of gender, sexuality and race.
By John Bonazzo
James Bennet returns to The New York Times

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This past weekend, the gender neutral honorific "Mx." was used in a story in The New York Times
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