Social distancing. Decolonize. Doomscrolling. When it came time to choose its annual Word of the Year, Oxford Languages looked at its data and realized a single word couldn’t sum up the pandemic, political and economic volatility, social activism, the environment, and the new technologies and behaviors to support remote working and living that embodied 2020. So it issued a report on the sudden, sweeping changes the year’s events had on the language.