What's your nominee for the most tiresomely overused word or phrase of 2022?

Trump

OMG please walk this out into the woods and shoot it dead!

(the word)

“woke”, “groomer”, “critical race theory”, “election fraud”, those are my nominations.
Overuses, misused, abused, by people who have no idea what those terms mean, or who do know, but are intentionally lying.

Let’s Go Brandon

“At the end of the day…”
“No worries”
“Perfect”

“Special Military Operation”

Phrase which annoys me the most is “top of mind.”

Most overused, I’d say “no worries.”

People still say, “amazing” far too much.

Unacceptable.

Awesome.

Literally. I literally try to literally not use literally very often.

I say fabulous a lot. Lol. I say awesome quite a bit also.

No worries I never really understood. I use it sometimes, but I more often use “not to worry” which to me is different.

I also agree that woke and CRT are annoyingly overused.

@Jonsblond I get a little sick to my stomach when I see people wearing a t-shirt that says “Let’s go Brandon,” or someone writes it on Facebook.

“No worries” I hear as an answer to “Thank you.” “No problem” is used to answer that, also. I read an article a few years ago how “no problem” is used and accepted more widely by younger people than older people, who expect “thank you” instead of “no worries.”

I say “super” a lot, instead of “awesome,” for example if someone says something they did, I’ll say “super! Thanks!”

Reach out. My response to “we’ll reach out…” is, “please don’t; just call.”
Awesome and amazing have been on this list for years….should still be.
Influencer.
Baked In.
Peel the onion.
Tribe.
Circle back.
OCD.
New normal.
Gaslight.

The science. When ever a politician needs to pass the buck with the media.

Like we will refer to good science about “whatever”.

@jca2 I say no problem a lot, but not in lieu of thank you, it’s in lieu of you’re welcome. I use both.

@SnipSnip Great list.

@RedDeerGuy1 Gawd yes. So tired of The science as much as I believe in and support the efforts of our scientists.

Woke.

New normal.

You’re on mute.

Can we retire “influencers”?

Also 2021 “Stop the Steal !!”

“I’m not gonna lie”
“One hundred percent”
“Perfect”
“Frick or Freaken” Just say what you wanna say here.
“bruh”
“sick” as in cool or good

Now get off my lawn you darn kids.

Let’s be clear.

Beyond any doubt it’s the term ‘conspiracy theory’.

People have used it much too often, without even knowing the meaning of those two words, so whatever they said had between almost nothing and literally nothing to do with either ‘conspiracy’ or ‘theory’.

Pssssst @AhYem Did you know that your very nice picture of your family is sideways? I just thought maybe you hadn’t noticed. :)

Thanks for visiting my profile, @smudges. I know that my picture is sloped, but there are these two reasons for that:

1. That picture is of me, and since I have always been sideways….

2. I’m so poor at computer and/or smartphone technology, that I sometimes ask my cat to help me out. That helps me much, since my can’t cat… wait a sec… since my cat can’t know that, and then I somehow manage to figure it out, after which I feel so proud for being smarter than my cat.

In short, I don’t have a clue how to make that picture get erected, the way my… spine used to be erected when I was younger, so much younger than today…

If it is possible for you to explain to me what darned button I have to press on my Lenovo laptop, please tell me, ‘cause I want to see myself stand upright for once in life, be it only in a picture. ;)

@AhYem LOL Love your explanation, and love cats, too! Unfortunately, I can’t help you with adjusting the pic, but I’ll bet someone here can.

It’s a four-way tie between:

toxic
narcissist
gaslighting
groomer

Unlike some who dislike these terms, I do not claim that they “have no meaning anymore”. They still have meaning and can still be used correctly. But internet culture and the tendency to exaggerate therein has diluted their effectiveness and caused skepticism when they are used, which is unfortunate.

At least now I’m hearing less of my hated phrases of the pandemic: “new normal”, “these uncertain times”, and the eternally false “we’re all in this together”.