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Ism is Merriam-Webster's word of the year

Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism

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New York: Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism.

But not just any ism. The top isms to earn high traffic spikes in lookups on the dictionary company’s website in 2015 over the year before are socialism, fascism, racism, feminism, communism, capitalism and terrorism.

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