By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be? Ding, ding, ding: Merriam-Webster on Monday announced 'pandemic' as its 2020 word of the year. 'That probably isn't a big shock,' Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, told The Associated Press. 'Often the big news story has a technical word that's associated with it and in this case, the word pandemic is not just technical but has become general. It's probably the word by which we'll refer to this period in the […]

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