While ‘intersex’, ‘horologist’ and ‘totality’ all saw spikes in searches this year, the dictionary website says searches for ‘complicit’ increased nearly 300%
Russian election influence, the ever-widening sexual harassment scandal, mass shootings and the opioid epidemic helped elevate the word “complicit” as the Dictionary.com word of the year for 2017.
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