Dictionary.com has selected “complicit” as its word of the year for 2017, citing the term’s renewed relevance in U.S. culture and politics — and noting that a refusal to be complicit has also been “a grounding force of 2017.” From a report: The website defines “complicit” as “choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity.” Interest in the word spiked several times this year, Dictionary.com says — most notably when Ivanka Trump said in April, “I don’t know what it means to be complicit.”

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