Banished Words List for 2023 includes GOAT, gaslighting, amazing In its annual Banished Words List, ... (banished in 2021 after so many COVID-related messages began with that phrase in 2020), ...

For writers, “amazing” has become a word to avoid, says Michael Raleigh, author of the novels “The Blue Moon Circus” (2003) and “In the Castle of the Flynns” (2002).