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Date: October 03, 2020 03:27PM
Merriam Webster reports ‘schadenfreude’ Lookups spiked 30,500% on October 2, 2020
https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/schadenfreude-20201002"Schadenfreude was our top lookup on October 2nd, by a very considerable margin, following President Trump’s announcement that he and the First Lady had tested positive for COVID-19.
President Donald Trump's coronavirus infection draws international sympathy and a degree of schadenfreude
— (headline) USA Today, 2 Oct. 2020
The Russian president joined a list of world leaders expressing sympathy and concern and some thinly-veiled schadenfreude, in light of Trump’s repeated downplaying of the pandemic and shoot-from-the-hip approach to the science surrounding it.
— Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
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