Rachel Lang
The shortlist for TIME Magazine's Person of the Year is here, and hoo boy, there are some doozies on there.
The list features a couple of interesting individuals and groups that are sure to set tongues wagging.
For the record, the criteria to take out the prize is to be 'the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year', as per TIME itself.
So, who's who is the zoo then?
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First up we have our 2021 winner making another appearance: tech mogul Elon Musk.
This one is sure to ruffle a few feathers, however he certainly has been one of the most talked about figures for 2022.
Musk has dominated the news cycle this year from the starting gun.
Headlines have covered his offer to throw down with Vladimir Putin in the name of Ukraine and its freedom, to a very public and sort-of forced purchase of social media platform Twitter.
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Speaking of Ukraine, the embattled nation's steadfast leader, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has also received a nomination.
Permanently dressed in his casual olive green shirt and matching slacks, the actor-turned-world leader has refused to leave Kyiv as his people needed him the most on home soil.
He also spoke at The Grammy Awards to urge the world's most rich and famous to not stand idly by as innocents are slaughtered during the Russian invasion.
The inspiring wartime leader has appealed to nations while standing its ground in the face of the looming threat of Mother Russia.
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And he's the voice of Ukraine's Paddington Bear.
One rather divisive inclusion on TIME's shortlist is the US Supreme Court.
This lovely group of people threw out America's 1973 precedent of Roe v. Wade, which handed a woman's right to an abortion back to the states.
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The move sent shockwaves through the US and the world as the judiciary dialled back a necessary and sometimes life-saving healthcare option for women and girls.
Other names on the list included the protesters fighting for women's rights in Iran, Chinese leader Xi Jinping for his strict Covid-19 lockdowns and tensions with Taiwan, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Liz Cheney copped a nomination for standing up against Donald Trump and his attempts to overturn the vote of the American people.
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The USA's first female Treasury Secretary Lizz Yellen, was also included.
And last, but not least, gun safety advocates who worked to raise awareness for their cause in the wake of the Uvalde shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead have been added to to the shortlist.
So that's it.
Good luck to all involved... well good luck to some anyway,