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The 20 phrases that defined 2020

By Tim Herrera
New York Times·
14 mins to read

We picked up a whole new vocabulary this year — some of it words that have been around forever.

Happy Blursday! Now quit doomscrolling, grab a quarantini and please keep social distancing.

Imagine explaining that sentence to yourself in December 2019.

This year has given us scores of new words, phrases, expressions and metaphors. Some are new to the popular vernacular, like quarantine pod, while others are just newly relevant after long histories as specialised terms, like contact tracing. Some

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