10 most-looked-up words of 2012, according to Merriam Webster

Here are the 10 words that most often sent Americans to the dictionary in 2012.

4. Marriage

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Like "bigot," marriage was another popular lookup motivated by the debate over same-sex marriage. Merriam Webster has several definitions of the controversial word, including “the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex,” as well as “the state of being united to a person of the same sex.”

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