"Polycrisis" may well be the word of the year for 2023.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Only selections for 2023 count; a word-of-the-year choice made for 2022 does not. TRUE: 'polycrisis' was named the 2023 Word of the Year by a major dictionary or language body (Oxford, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Cambridge, Dictionary.com or the American Dialect Society). MOSTLY TRUE: it was on the official 2023 shortlist of one of those bodies, or was named 2023 word of the year by another major outlet. MOSTLY FALSE: it was widely used and discussed in 2023 but not chosen or shortlisted by any of them. FALSE: it was not chosen or shortlisted for 2023 and was not especially prominent that year.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Rizz crowned Oxford Word of the Year 2023 - Oxford University Press Oxford University Press · 4 December 2023
“After over 30,000 language lovers around the world got involved to help refine our shortlist of eight words, we are pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year 2023 is rizz.”
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E2 Word of the Year 2023: Oxford 'rizz' up; Webster & Collins capture modern zeitgeist Morung Express · 5 December 2023
“Other WOTY finalists for Oxford were Prompt; Situationship; Swiftie, while Beige Flag, De-influencing; Heat dome; Parasocial adjective were shortlisted.”
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E3 Word of the Year 2023: Oxford 'rizz' up; Webster & Collins capture modern zeitgeist Morung Express · 5 December 2023
“Other shortlisted words for Collins’ WOTY were De-Influencing, Nepo Baby, Canon Event, Ultra-processed, ULIZ (ultra-low emission zone), Debanking, Bazball, Semaglutide, and Greedflation.”
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E4 Word of the Year 2023: Oxford 'rizz' up; Webster & Collins capture modern zeitgeist Morung Express · 5 December 2023
“Other top contenders for WOTY in Webster were Rizz; Deepfake; Coronation; Dystopian; EGOT (the Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar, and the Tony), X, Implode; Doppelgänger; Covenant; Indict, Elemental, Kibbutz and Deadname.”
Reasoning
The evidence shows that 'polycrisis' was not among the 2023 Oxford, Collins or Merriam-Webster selections or listed contenders [E1–E4], but it does not cover Cambridge, Dictionary.com or the American Dialect Society. No item shows how prominent the word was in 2023, which is what separates 'mostly false' from 'false' under the criteria.
Cite this claim
Jeremy Grantham, “"Polycrisis" may well be the word of the year for 2023.” (said January 2023). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_4bb901e1d1ad, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_4bb901e1d1ad
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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