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Word of the Year 2022
December 3 , 2022
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- The US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster announced that their 2022 word of the year is “gaslighting”.
- This word was defined as, “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage.”
- Interest in the term was up by 1,740% over the previous year’s according to searches of the online dictionary.
- The term itself came into existence 80 years ago in 1938 through the play-gas light.
- This play was written by Patrick Hamilton.
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