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word of the year

And the Dictionary.com award for "Word of the Year 2016" goes to...

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Xenophobia!

The word means a "fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers," and it has dominated the conversation so much in 2016 that it's taken the most prestigious end-of-year word-award in the land.

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