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                    [ArticleID] => 1876860
                    [Title] => ‘Toxic’, Oxford Word of 2018
                    [Summary] => Ang salitang toxic ang ipinroklama ng Oxford Dictionaries bilang salita ng taon.
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-12-14 00:00:00
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                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1282223
                    [AuthorName] => Doris Franche
                    [SectionName] => Bansa
                    [SectionUrl] => bansa
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                    [ArticleID] => 1876956
                    [Title] => Oxford Word of 2018  isn’t nice,  it’s ‘toxic’
                    [Summary] => What single word best captures the tone of the past year? Oxford Dictionaries says it’s “toxic.”
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-12-14 00:00:00
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                    [ArticleID] => 1523651
                    [Title] => Oxford Dictionary's word of the year is not a 'word'
                    [Summary] => 

For the first time in history, the Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year is not a word.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-18 20:55:52 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Lifestyle Features [SectionUrl] => lifestyle-features [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/on-the-radar/20151119/word-of-the-year-oxford.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1393160 [Title] => 'Vape' is Oxford Dictionary's word of the year [Summary] =>

Amid the heated debate whether or not electronic cigarettes are really safe, Oxford has chosen ‘vape’ as the word of the year.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-18 14:35:39 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1121281 [AuthorName] => Alixandra Caole Vila [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/paandar/vape1.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1375685 [Title] => Click click, bang bang: ‘Selfie’ is our word of the year [Summary] =>

In a time when Filipino teenagers can accidentally shoot themselves in the head while attempting a Clint Eastwood-esque selfie; when our local bishops organization can promote papal selfies with a cardboard cut-out of Pope Francis; and when lawmakers can debate the merits of a bill that could possibly intrude on our right to take selfies—it makes perfect sense that “selfie” has been declared our word of the year in the recently concluded Sawikaan 2014.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134405 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732449 [AuthorName] => Samantha King [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/young-star/20141003/selfie-is-our-world-3.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1258486 [Title] => Oxford Dictionaries: 'Selfie' is word of the year [Summary] =>

Michelle Obama shared one with her "first dog" Bo, Hillary Clinton tweeted one with her daughter Chelsea. Now "selfie" — the smartphone self-portrait — has been declared word of the year for 2013, according to Britain's Oxford University Press.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-19 11:46:27 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1759773 [AuthorName] => Sylvia Hui [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1144181 [Title] => 'Twerking' bounces into Oxford dictionary [Summary] =>

Twerking, the rump-busting up-and-down dance move long beloved on America's hip-hop scene, has officially gone mainstream. It's got the English dictionary entry to prove it.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-28 11:07:36 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1665477 [AuthorName] => Raphael Satter [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/6520/lvs7.jpg ) ) )
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