The word has been around since mid-century, but we see a big jump in 2017 and then another jump every single year since. This is a word that has really jumped into the public domain. If we can trace it to any single thing, we can traced it to the teen Vogue article from December 2016. And of course, this is before Donald Trump took office.
It’s sooo 2016, but the word still mattered a lot in 2022. Merriam-Webster explains.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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