Given that recent years' WOTYs include Brexit (Collins English Dictionary, 2016), climate emergency (Oxford Languages, 2019), pandemic (Merriam-Webster, 2020), lockdown (Collins, 2020), doomscrolling (Macquarie Dictionary, 2020) and insurrection (American Dialect Society, 2021), it is perhaps inevitable that we would find ourselves in a "permacrisis" – Collins' pick for 2022. 2022 December 7, Lisa Lim, “From gaslighting to permacrisis, what Word of the Year picks say about 2022, and the one that offers a ray of hope”, in South China Morning Post, Hong Kong: South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC: