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Social distancing at Domino Park in the Williamsburg borough of Brooklyn, Monday, May 18, 2020, in New York.

Video. Lockdown, social distancing, quarantini: The 2020 pandemic lexicon

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From talk of flattening the curve to doomscrolling: how the coronavirus pandemic hijacked our vocabulary.

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