In a word, 2016 was "surreal."
Surreal, meaning "marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream" was looked up so much by online users that Merriam-Webster on Monday dubbed it the 2016 word of the year.
Surreal joined the Oxford English Dictionary's "post-truth" and Dictionary.com's "xenophobia" as top words of the year.
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