Joseph Deitch

Every year, several dictionary publishers choose a Word of the Year (which can also be a multi-word term). Last year, for example, Oxford dictionaries chose “climate emergency” and Dictionary.com chose “existential.”

If I had to place a bet on what this year’s would be, I think I’d go with “social distancing.”

This term has catapulted into the lexicon as one of our key protectors in the battle agai