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We've used a lot of words in 2018, so it's no surprise that there is more than one "word of the year." Oxford Dictionaries' judgment is that "toxic" illuminates something about this year.

 in look-ups of toxic and it was used in so many situations that "the sheer scope of its application, as found by our research, made toxic the stand-out choice for the Word of the Year title."
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Word experts at Collins Dictionary selected "single-use" as their word of the year, 

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The publisher's research found "the sheer scope of its application" made "toxic" stand out this year.

'Toxic' is Oxford Dictionaries' word of 2018

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