Every year, Merriam-Webster releases its word of the year; 2019's was "they," in the way gender non-binary individuals use their pronouns. Since the word of the year, the organization says, is based on data, including significant increases in search engine look-ups, 2020's word is none too surprising: The word, the dictionary posted on Twitter, is "pandemic." Surely this is one of, if not the, most looked-up word for this year (others included "malarkey," "kraken" and "antebellum"), but was it the only word that could have sufficiently summed up 2020?