From politics to pop culture, language played a significant role in shaping the events of 2022 – and how people perceived them. Here are the top language moments of the year, as selected by maslansky + partners.

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Leading Language Strategy® firm, maslansky + partners (m+p), today announced that Ben Feller, the former Associated Press Chief White House Correspondent, will be joining as a partner.

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Leading Language Strategy® firm, maslansky + partners (m+p), today announced that it has hired Jaime Hodges, PhD as its Senior Vice President and Head of Quantitative Research.

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Companies are increasingly told they have to respond right away in a crisis. But there’s still a right and a wrong way to do it. GE isn’t quite getting it right.

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Today, in a marketing culture driven by short-form, shareable content – not to mention short attention spans – it all comes down to using the right words.

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Today’s CEOs face a much more volatile and dynamic universe of internal and external stakeholders and are increasingly caught in the middle – forced to choose a side. In this new era, the public and media will increasingly look to CEOs to voice their positions on a widening range of issues.

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It seems that apologies are in the headlines every day. For any company, apologizing is one of the hardest things to communicate – there is no instance where the words you use are more important than when your company has (or is perceived to have) something to apologize for. Because how a company crafts an apology can make or break their reputation.

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Language in polling matters. Saying “welfare” versus “assistance for the poor,” for example, can elicit drastically different reactions even if they mean the same thing. Lee Carter talks with Fox and Friends about how phrasing can significantly impact the results of polls.

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On FOX News’s Strategy Room with Gregg Jarrett, Lee Carter lays it straight: Obamacare is a reality, no longer something to tout as a partisan issue to gain favor with the public.

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