According to Dictionary.com, the site found that the highest volume of searches for “woman” began near the end of March, during the confirmation hearings for now-Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Dictionary.com has announced their 2022 "Word of the Year" — "woman" — because of the massive increase in searches for the definition of the word due to debates over whether biological males can be considered women.
The popular dictionary website made the announcement on Monday, making sure to include the woke "identity" definition beyond simply "an adult female person."
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"But the dictionary is not the last word on what defines a woman. The word belongs to each and every woman—however they define themselves," the release stated.
"This year, searches for the word woman on Dictionary.com spiked significantly multiple times in relation to separate high-profile events, including the moment when a question about the very definition of the word was posed on the national stage," the announcement said
"During the height of the lookups for woman on Dictionary.com in 2022, searches for the word increased more than 1,400 percent (a massive leap for such a common word). Subsequent spikes eventually resulted in double the typical annual search volume for the word," the site continued.
According to Dictionary.com, the site found that the highest volume of searches for "woman" began near the end of March, during the confirmation hearings for now-Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
"Specifically, the surge in lookups came after she was asked by Senator Marsha Blackburn to provide a definition for the word woman," the announcement reads.
On March 22, Republican Sen. Blackburn of Tennessee asked then-SCOTUS nominee Jackson: "Can you provide a definition for the word woman?"
"I can't. Not in this context. I'm not a biologist," Jackson replied, prompting backlash and re-sparking conversations on what the actual definition of "woman" is.
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Later in June, The Daily Wire released a documentary on the subject by Matt Walsh, entitled "What is a Woman?"
The film, which received an audience score of 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes for poking holes in the left-wing activist definition of women, further popularized the discussion topic online.
"The prominence of the question and the attention it received demonstrate how issues of transgender identity and rights are now frequently at the forefront of our national discourse," Dictionary.com continued. "More than ever, we are all faced with questions about who gets to identify as a woman (or a man, or neither)."
In response to the "Word of the Year," former Republican candidate for governor of Michigan Tudor Dixon poked fun at the dictionary website.
"Dictionary.com word of the year is woman but please don't ask them to define it," she wrote on Twitter.
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"The policies that these questions inform transcend the importance of any dictionary definition—they directly impact people's lives," the announcement continued.
The announcement was also made fun of by the satirical newspaper The Onion.
On the other side, Dictionary.com was praised by left-wing LGBTQ+ website PinkNews, which called Sen. Blackburn's question a "dog whistle for anti-trans sentiments."
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