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The 2016 words of the year

An examination of some of the words and terms that defined 2016.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/21/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/630204152-11652.jpg Are potential AFC wild-card teams any threat to the Patriots?

We examined the Chiefs, Dolphins, Ravens, Titans, and Broncos as the race for the wild card spots tightens.

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When the new owners ruin your childhood home

Homes are sold, and strangers move in. The consequences aren?t always heartwarming.

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The Patriots receiver was charged with DUI last week after falling asleep behind the wheel at a traffic light.

? ? | Movie Review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/16/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/PD_07074_R_COMP2_v02_med1479412099.jpg ?Patriots Day? is heartfelt and unnecessary

Everyone involved with this movie believes they?re acting with respect, even when they?re not.

TV CRITIC?s CORNER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/20/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/NUP_176258_0251.jpg Watch the top 10 late-night TV moments of 2016

From ?Make Donald Drumpf again? to the return of ?Colbert,? here?s our critic?s list of the 10 most memorable late-night segments of the year.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/21/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/3.JPG This guy is doing Christmas way better than you are

Cameron Goodrich, who helps run a pop-up shop in Weston, says he sells ?straight Christmas.? And he?s having fun doing it.

Dave Epstein

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/30/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/wreath.jpg The shortest day of the year has arrived. Here?s what you need to know

Though Wednesday marks the winter solstice ? and a drop in daylight hours ? the coldest days are still ahead.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/21/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/593258516.jpg Galen Rupp headlines American entries for Boston Marathon

Five of the six US marathoners at the Olympics in Rio have committed to race in Boston in April.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/36f52999-7412-4f60-a55f-30ed562d5a31.jpg Their fresh start led to a tragic end

Pete and Danielle were both a little wild, both dreamers who played guitar and fantasized of a life on the edge.

Celtics 112, Grizzlies 109 (OT)

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/21/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/d308299707e3486fa7307092b7c017df-d308299707e3486fa7307092b7c017df-0.jpg ?He was unstoppable?: Isaiah Thomas scores career-high 44 points

The point guard carried the Celtics to a comeback win in overtime against the Grizzlies.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/instagram_Marcotte_met.jpg Family of slain jogger to issue public statement

Vanessa Marcotte was killed in August while jogging near her mother?s home in Princeton.

BERLIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 21: A worker collects remains from the wrecked Christmas market where two days before a man drove a heavy truck into the market in an apparent terrorist attack on December 21, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. So far 12 people are confirmed dead and 48 injured. Authorities initially arrested a Pakistani man whom they believed was the driver of the truck, though later released him and are now pursuing other leads. Among the dead are a Polish man with a gunshot wound who was found on the passenger seat of the truck. Police are investigating the possibility that the truck, which belongs to a Polish trucking company, was hijacked the morning of the attack. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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New Berlin attack suspect considered dangerous

A manhunt throughout Europe is underway for a Tunisian man in his 20s who had previously been considered a possible terror threat.

The transition to Trump

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/07/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_07healey3_MET.jpg Mass. Democrats try to boost profile with Trump jabs

The state?s next generation of Democratic leaders have been largely reluctant to criticize Governor Charlie Baker. But they have found a new foil.

EDITORIAL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/20/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Advance/Images/1221trumpss2.jpg Trump security undercuts Secret Service

Donald Trump?s use of a private security team puts both the Secret Service and himself at risk.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/06/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/18merrimack04.jpg Merrimack Pharmaceuticals stops trial of breast cancer drug

An outside panel said the medicine probably wouldn?t work better than treatments already on the market.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/21/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/AFP_JB2TH.jpg James Taylor, no friend of Duterte, cancels show over drugs war

Taylor has canceled his scheduled February show in Manila in protest over extrajudicial killings in the Philippines president?s war on drugs.

Worker injured during repairs following manhole blasts, fire

The unidentified worker is expected to survive after being injured while repairing electrical equipment in Malden.

08bus - An MBTA bus drives down a dedicated lane converted from parking spaces on Broadway in Everett during a one week trial. The MBTA could use the project as a way to encourage other bus-only lane tests in traffic-snarled Boston. (Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe)

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Everett hails bus-only lane as success

An MBTA survey of more than 300 bus riders found that respondents unanimously backed the program.

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What the future of Obamacare might look like post-election

With the Trump administration talking repeal and reform, here?s what businesses need to know now.

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Every doctor told the Lacey family their son would die ? except one

Pat and Dina Lacey had been parents for only a few months when doctors discovered a tumor in their new baby?s chest. Told to take their son home to die, they put their faith in a young doctor who wouldn?t accept death as the answer.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/20/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Scot_Lehigh_150px-2023.jpg How to bring about true democracy

It?s time for some citizen activism to help America break free of its anti-democratic anchor. I?m talking the Electoral College, of course.

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The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20160923_SAMentalHealth_312.jpg The San Antonio solution

One Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?

The story behind ?Spotlight?

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

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Prime opens Audi, Acura, and Porsche dealerships

A few years back, motorists leaving Rte. 95 and driving down Rte. 1 South in Westwood could look to the right and see a group of businesses: a daycare center, menswear store, pool and patio company, and some warehouses. David Rosenberg, president of Prime Motor Group, who drove by daily, instead saw that large parcel [?]