Word-of-the-Year Voting, 2022

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Word-of-the-Year Voting, 2022

THIS ROUND IS NOW CLOSED. VOTE NOW IN THE SECOND ROUND.

This is the first round of voting for the Grammar Girl word of the year. The goal is to ultimately pick the word that most represents the zeitgeist of 2022. To give you an idea of how this generally goes, the words picked by dictionaries last year included "insurrection," "allyship," "vaccine/vax," "perseverance," and "NFT."

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Which word better represents the 2022 zeitgeist?

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heat waves

you do you

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pronouns

exhaustion

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long COVID

federated

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quiet quitting

Dobbs

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slava Ukraine

solar punk

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democracy

forgiveness

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bivalent

unbalanced

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war

campaign

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hunker down

polarized

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unionize

woke

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multiverse

performative

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billionaires

leadership

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hellsite

OK boomer

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subscribe

anti-vaxxer

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tripledemic

verification

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work from home

overwhelm

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mass shooting

#IStandWith

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supply chain

hope punk

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handmaid

algorithm

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goblin mode

doomscrolling

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reinfection

warm bank

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unaccountable

permacrisis

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brain fog

omicron

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gaslight

precedent

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Space Karen

trauma

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shrinkflation

greedflation

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inflation

cryptofail

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fatigue

Dark Brandon

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climate emergency

Elon

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recession

corruption

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flourish

mass disabling event

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