MAYBE the language lovers who looked up “refudiate” this summer wanted to refute or repudiate its existence as a real word.
Whatever the reason, their curiosity made Sarah Palin’s not-quite-a-word Merriam-Webster’s “Word of the Summer,” the one most often searched by users of the publisher’s online dictionary.
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