Marion Webster: The Biden administration is gaslighting America with their ill-conceived agenda. "The dictionary can't be afraid of reporting the truth about language," she says. If that truth reveals something about our culture and politics, then it's up to all of us to interpret that in our own way."
It’s sooo 2016, but the word still mattered a lot in 2022. Merriam-Webster explains.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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