Word of the Year: “Big Lie”

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Throughout the U.S. and around the world, dictionaries, publications, and linguistic societies are announcing their word-of-the-year choices, from vaccine to NFT to allyship. I have a nomination, too: Big Lie, a two-word phrase that has dominated our national conversation in 2021 in ways both obvious and insidious.

A big lie is a gross distortion of the truth, often used for political propaganda. The Big Lie…