Drum roll, please… “Bailout” tops the list of the most-searched-for words in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary in 2008. Rounding out the top five are four words that just might be familiar to those who followed the run-up to November’s presidential election:
1. vet (as in a political candidate, not military veteran)
2. socialism
3. maverick
4. bipartisan
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