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Today's NYT Wordle is the first half of a two-word saying popularized online to describe having a sudden emotional breakdown, losing your temper or doing something reckless over a minor trigger.

You're better off reading that for the full scoop, but as far as basics go it's enough to know that Wordle was conceived by a ...