2020 Glossary

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Words, terms, and phrases rarely/never used before 2020, but are now commonplace or were bandied about in this year:

Social Distancing

Shelter-in-place

P.P.E. (personal protective equipment)

The "worried well"


Feel free to add if you have any others. (Not long-standing words you happened to learned this year, but new/seldom-used terms that have come about this year and have been used frequently.)

"New Normal"

"China virus"

Stimulus check

Office of the President-Elect

And this one: Karen (as an archetype)

Concert Pitch (new to me)
A = 440 Hz Tuning

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