It's impossible to describe the year that was 2022 in a single word -- but these dozen or so terms, like 'quiet quitting,' 'bond yields,' 'goblin mode,' 'woman' and 'gaslighting,' certainly came close.
Don’t let anyone “gaslight” you into a “permacrisis” over your slide into “goblin mode” — or whatever we’re branding your obsession with yet another pair of cashmere sweatpants and ordering in takeout every night of the week.
Some words can be taken as positive reflections for the way we protect ourselves from all that life dishes out. Other choices take very common words and force us to examine how we best can evolve as a society.Gaslighting “Gaslighting” as a vernacular fixture apparently burns on, as Merriam-Webster chose gaslighting as its 2022 top word. That dictionary defines the term as “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage.
— Merriam-Webster editor at large Peter Sokolowski In recent years, we have seen the meaning of gaslighting refer to something simpler and broader: “The act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for a personal advantage.” In this use, the word is at home with other terms relating to modern forms of deception and manipulation, such as “fake news,” deepfakes and artificial intelligence.
Permacrisis Widen the lens, and the world continued to deal with the climate-change crisis, including how Russia’s attack on Ukraine led to an energy emergency, for natural gas NG00, -0.56% especially. That emergency meant surging pump prices RB00, +0.98% in the U.S. and it prompted some environmental champions, Germany for one, to revert to the old ways, like using polluting coal to help power the country.
The phrase generated millions of views on TikTok as some young professionals rejected the idea of going above and beyond in their careers — replacing the climb for a raise or promotion, or simply the satisfaction of teamwork, to preserve energy and joy. This lesser enthusiasm was considered a form of “quitting” by some.
Within just three years, Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF as he is known, came out of nowhere and became the closest thing crypto, the mined digital currency increasingly accepted for goods and services, had to a central banker. SBF built the world’s second-largest centralized crypto exchange, FTX, and controlled trading firm Alameda Research. But in November his crypto empire came crashing down amid suggestions that FTX had been lending customer funds to shore up losses at Alameda Research.
The late-2022 sequel to the blockbuster “Avatar” film some 10 years after the first added to the buzz around imagined worlds. Disney’s DIS, -0.34% Avatar: The Way of Water, out as of Dec. 16, already stands as at least the No. 2 release of 2022.Virtual-reality legend John Carmack’s departure just made Meta’s metaverse an even bigger gamble
As inflation percolated post-COVID, the Federal Reserve’s benchmark lending rate has jumped to a range of 4.25%-4.5% from 0%-0.25% earlier this year, including a number of 75 basis-point hikes and more increases expected into 2023, as Barron’s reports. Nuclear fusion, if it can be produced at scale, has long been considered the holy grail in the push to provide cleaner energy and slow the global warming that is intensifying natural disasters, acidifying oceans and causing extreme heat and drought.The bigger picture:
The paper shared this hypothetical as a way to recognize the warning signs: “Have you noticed that your father likes to go out on his bike for six hours every Sunday, having already spent six hours fixing it? That, dear, is a beige flag I should have seen coming 26 years ago.”
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