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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Science
Tory Shepherd

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

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The Macquarie Dictionary said ‘enshittification’ captured what many felt was happening to their lives. Illustration: Rob Dobi/Getty Images

“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow said earlier this year.

In 2022, Doctorow coined the word “enshittification”, which has just been crowned Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year. The dictionary defined the word as follows.

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