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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Susie Beever

Word of the year announced by Oxford Dictionaries - and it captures the mood of 2022

Oxford Dictionaries has revealed its word of the year.

The publicly-selected word to be added to the dictionary, which is often chosen to mirror a national trend or feeling, has this year been unveiled as 'goblin-mode'.

The term is defined as "a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations".

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