Doomscrolling On A Staycation? Here Are The OED’s ‘Words Of An Unprecedented Year’

"Flatten the curve" is one of the many new phrases introduced into the lexicon this year that would

The lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary couldn’t sum up the year in just one word — so they went with a whole list instead.

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The lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary couldn’t sum up the year in just one word — so they went with a whole list instead.