"Gaslighting" is Merriam-Webster's Word of 2022.

[CousinIT]

Apropos, given MAGA and the media's decades-long gaslighting operations which have come to several monstrous hydra-like heads in the past 5-6 years. What word did they expect might be the word of the year? Democracy? Pfft.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gaslighting-merriam-websters-word-2022-rcna58900

NEW YORK — “Gaslighting” — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year.

Lookups for the word on merriam-webster.com increased 1,740% in 2022 over the year before. But something else happened. There wasn’t a single event that drove significant spikes in the curiosity, as it usually goes with the chosen word of the year.

The gaslighting was pervasive.

“It’s a word that has risen so quickly in the English language, and especially in the last four years, that it actually came as a surprise to me and to many of us,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press ahead of Monday’s unveiling.

“It was a word looked up frequently every single day of the year,” he said.

[Bayard]

1. Did they illustrate with a picture of TFG?

[Magoo48]

2. I think of:

US school curriculums, tfg, corporate tv news, Wall Street and Madison Avenue.

[KPN]

3. What took them so long?

[IronLionZion]

4. Oh yes, I love hearing how some things are not so bad

by people who weren't there or are not impacted.

[calimary]

5. Well well well.

Every single day. Good.