‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year FILE - From left, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, attend the 9/11 Memorial ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, on Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
FILE - People gather at No Studios to watch the presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, on Sept. 10, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
FILE - Chris Covert, front right, from Leawood, Kan., watches the presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at a 97-year-old movie theater on Sept. 10, 2024, in Shawnee, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
FILE - A VistaJet private jet, dubbed "The Football Era," with the tail number 9H-VTD, thought by online sleuths to have Taylor Swift aboard, arrives at Los Angeles International Airport from Tokyo's Haneda Airport, on Feb. 10, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)
FILE - Taylor Swift embraces Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce after the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game against the San Francisco 49ers, on Feb. 11, 2024, in Las Vegas. The Chiefs won 25-22 against the 49ers. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)
FILE - Rapper Kendrick Lamar appears at the MTV Video Music Awards, on Aug. 27, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif., left, and Canadian rapper Drake appears at the premiere of the series "Euphoria," in Los Angeles on June 4, 2019. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Australia's Rachael Gunn, known as B-Girl Raygun,competes during the Round Robin Battle at the breaking competition at La Concorde Urban Park at the 2024 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin, File)
FILE - Jordan Chiles, of the United States, holds up her medals after the women's artistic gymnastics individual apparatus finals Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
FILE - From left, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, attend the 9/11 Memorial ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, on Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)