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 * List of "banished" words and phrases

Every year, Lake Superior State University, the BBC, the New York Times, Time magazine, and other institutions publish lists of overused words and phrases that they (or in the case of Time, their readers according to an online poll) would like to see banned, retired, and avoided. Listed below are some of their selections.

2017
Source 
 * You, Sir
 * Focus
 * Bête Noire
 * Town Hall Meeting
 * Post-Truth
 * Guesstimate
 * 831
 * Historic
 * Manicured
 * Echo Chamber
 * On Fleek
 * Bigly
 * Ghost
 * Dadbod
 * Listicle
 * "Get your dandruff up ..."
 * Selfie Drone
 * Frankenfruit
 * Disruption

2016
Source 
 * so
 * conversation
 * problematic
 * stakeholder
 * price point
 * secret sauce
 * break the internet
 * walk it back
 * vape
 * physicality
 * manspreading
 * presser
 * giving me life

2015
Source 
 * bae
 * basic
 * bossy
 * cray-cray
 * curate/curated
 * disrupt
 * enhanced interrogation
 * feminist
 * foodie
 * friend-raising
 * hack
 * I can't even
 * influencer
 * kale
 * literally
 * -nation
 * obvi
 * polar vortex
 * said no one ever
 * skill set
 * sorry not sorry
 * takeaway
 * turnt
 * yaaasssss

2014
Source 
 * absolutely
 * adversity
 * anyway (adv. conj.)
 * -ageddon
 * fan base
 * # hashtag
 * hipster
 * iconic
 * intellectually bankrupt
 * look...
 * mister mom
 * morally bankrupt
 * Obamacare
 * on steroids
 * passion
 * -pocalypse
 * selfie
 * so... (conj.)
 * t-bone
 * twittersphere

2013
Source 
 * 24/7
 * artisan
 * best practices
 * boneless wings
 * brand
 * bucket list
 * double down
 * end of the day
 * fiscal cliff
 * gluten-free
 * guru
 * job creators/creation
 * kick the can down the road
 * passion/passionate
 * spoiler alert
 * superfood
 * trending
 * whatever
 * world-class

2012
Source 
 * amazing
 * baby bump
 * blowback
 * boss
 * bro-
 * epic
 * ginormous
 * # hashtag
 * LOL/OMG/WTF
 * man cave
 * netizen
 * occupy
 * pet parent
 * sexting
 * shared sacrifice
 * thank you in advance
 * trickeration
 * win the future

2011
Source 
 * aha-moment
 * the American people
 * back story
 * bff
 * creative
 * effective
 * epic
 * extensive experience
 * facebook as verb
 * fail
 * google as verb
 * I'm just sayin'
 * live life to the fullest
 * mama grizzlies
 * man up
 * motivated
 * organizational
 * refudiate
 * track record
 * viral
 * wow factor

2010
Source 
 * aporkalypse
 * app
 * birther
 * bromance
 * chillaxin'
 * conflict minerals
 * czar
 * friend as a verb
 * Great Recession
 * I'mma let you finish
 * in these economic times
 * meep
 * Obama-
 * sexting
 * shovel-ready
 * stimulus
 * teachable moment
 * too big to fail
 * toxic assets
 * transparent/transparency
 * tweet

2009
Source 
 * bailout
 * carbon footprint
 * carbon offset
 * desperate search
 * exit strategy
 * First Dude
 * game changer
 * green
 * green shoots
 * historic opportunity
 * icon/iconic
 * it's that time of the year again
 * maverick
 * -monkey
 * new normal
 * not so much
 * staycation
 * unprecedented
 * Wall/Main Street
 * winner of x nominations

2008
Source 
 * <3
 * authored
 * back in the day
 * Black Friday
 * decimate
 * emotional x
 * give back
 * it is what it is
 * makes x pop
 * organic
 * perfect storm
 * post-9/11
 * random
 * surge
 * sweet
 * truthiness
 * under the bus
 * waterboarding
 * webinar
 * wordsmith/ing
 * x is the new y

Banned more than once, still in use
ask for it by name (1999, 2000), awesome (1984, 2007), basically (1984, 1986, 1993), the bottom line (1979, 1992), classic (1982, 1989), enclosed please find (1985, 1989), exact same (1981, 1990), first time ever (1982, 1983), if you will (1984, 1991), incidences (1988, 1993), regardless (1979, 1988), live audience (1983, 1987, 1990), myself (1990, 1991), on a roll (1984, 1988), ongoing (1984, 1986, 1993), parenting (1978, 1991), passion/passionate (2013, 2014), proactive (1991, 1993), very unique (1983, 2002), viable alternative (1979, 1992), world class (1982, 1993), yuh know (1978, 1979)