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Dictionary.com's word of the year is 'xenophobia'
AP ^ | Nov. 28, 2016 | LEANNE ITALIE

Posted on 11/28/2016 1:01:27 PM PST by PROCON

NEW YORK (AP) — You might have thought about it, heard it. A lot. You might have even felt it: Dictionary.com's word of the year is "xenophobia."

While it's difficult to get at exactly why people look up words in dictionaries, online or on paper, it's clear that in contentious 2016, fear of "otherness" bruised the collective consciousness around the globe.

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


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KEYWORDS: 2016review; dictionarydotcom; language; pc; top10; xenophobia
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To: nopardons

The definitions they give you.....lean leftwing. That is why I haven’t used it in some time.


21 posted on 11/28/2016 1:20:42 PM PST by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~WE DID IT DEPLORABLES!EraseThe0bagambiLegacy!)
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To: PROCON

Scary.

22 posted on 11/28/2016 1:21:44 PM PST by rightwingcrazy ("We will not tolerate those who are intolerant of the intolerant.")
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To: ColdOne
I've never even heard of the site, let alone used it. OTOH, by query to you, was about WHY you didn't know the word at all and had the need to look it up.

Back when I was in high school ( before the FLOOD ), it was a very well known word and often appeared on SAT tests.

23 posted on 11/28/2016 1:29:26 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Still Thinking; WayneS

.....and paranoids are following me everywhere I go!..............


24 posted on 11/28/2016 1:34:22 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: nopardons

I don’t ever remember seeing it anywhere. I live a sheltered life?


25 posted on 11/28/2016 1:34:46 PM PST by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~WE DID IT DEPLORABLES!EraseThe0bagambiLegacy!)
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To: PROCON

26 posted on 11/28/2016 1:39:46 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
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To: ColdOne
A "sheltered" life? That's not quite what I'd call it, but perhaps you are kind of young? If not "youngish", then I find it difficult to believe ( but I'm NOT calling you a liar, I'm just shocked! ) that you've never come across that word until now. SMH
27 posted on 11/28/2016 1:42:24 PM PST by nopardons
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To: PROCON
The Huron Indians weren't xenophobic.

Where are they now?

28 posted on 11/28/2016 1:44:38 PM PST by Does so ( 'Time for English as the US' sole National language...==8-O)
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To: Red Badger

Hey, just cause you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get ya!


29 posted on 11/28/2016 1:45:35 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: rightwingcrazy

...and not guilty!


30 posted on 11/28/2016 1:46:25 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Even paranoids have real enemies.......Henry Kissinger........


31 posted on 11/28/2016 1:48:03 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Or as Charo calls him “Kissing Her”!


32 posted on 11/28/2016 1:50:05 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: PROCON

Xenophobia is, at least at lower levels of severity, a survival trait.


33 posted on 11/28/2016 1:51:11 PM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: PROCON

Xenophobia: (noun) insufficient xenophilia. McCain wanted to let in only a quarter million unvetted Syrians, so Hillary called him a xenophobe.


34 posted on 11/28/2016 1:59:11 PM PST by KarlInOhio (" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
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To: PROCON

I thought Xenophobia was an irrational fear of Xena the Warrior Princess?


35 posted on 11/28/2016 2:11:14 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: PROCON
Ameriphobia, Caucophobia, Christiphobia, Penisphobia.

Many of us are the victims of Americaucochristopenisphobia. You're even more feared if you have acheived successism.

Could also be called Westerncilviliphobia, but since there is no more western civilization really except in America and a few outposts about the world ... Americaucochristopenissuccesshappyphobia is probably a good replacement.

36 posted on 11/28/2016 2:21:22 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: PROCON
Even Webster's is full of liberal bias!

My word for the year would be... turning point.

37 posted on 11/28/2016 2:57:02 PM PST by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: PROCON
Xenophobia: Fear of election theft by liberal zenomorphs.


38 posted on 11/28/2016 4:00:10 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: PROCON

Rigged


39 posted on 11/28/2016 4:21:09 PM PST by GotMojo
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To: PROCON

I thought it would be “existential”. Sick of hearing it.


40 posted on 11/29/2016 7:15:34 AM PST by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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