Merriam-Webster named culture in all of its definitions as its word of the year for 2014, saying that culture was a “big word at back-to-school time each year, but last year lookups extended well beyond the academic calendar.” The company chooses its word of the year based on a set of criteria that includes the number of online searches for a particular word and how much those searches rose from the previous year.
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