OFF-MUTE 🔈
🗓️ Every year we retire a list of words and phrases.
✨ It’s a process designed and led by Samantha McGarry, our executive vice president of Story Crafting.
💬 The words often reflect what we’ve experienced, read about, dealt with, and perhaps said too often – personally and professionally. Here’s what we’re shelving in 2022:
💥 Hardcore (thanks, Elon)
🤫 Quiet quitting (because it’s over … and not cool)
🖱️Double-click (while we’re at it, drill down and zoom in can probably go too)
🧌 Goblin mode (the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year – since we spent more time doomscrolling than connecting with humans during the past three years)
🙊 Lowkey (we’re lowkey ready for a new term)
💪 Divide and conquer (how did the military get so many phrases into our vernacular?!)
👀 Workplace surveillance (if this is a thing, we quit, and not quietly)
📈 Stagflation/shrinkflation (do made up words get more clicks?)
🏃♀️Level up (life isn’t a video game)
👍 More than 100% (there’s gotta be a new way to strongly agree)
🫠 Vibe shift (because change is our only constant)
🧠 Gaslighting (Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year – it’s real and terrible and we want the actual thing to go away so we don’t need the word anymore)
