This year’s nominees were: AI washing, cutback inflation, burnout bureaucracy, comfort water, Gen Z intern, coolness gap, pager attack, professional jester, cheat scooter and transition regret. There were mainly reactions to pager attack and transition regret, and these came from both the left and the right, according to a spokesperson. The election will still go ahead in Belgium.
Word of the year is ‘polarization’ after discussion about election got out of hand
