“Critically panned” means to receive a poor critical response. I tried looking for the etymology, but couldn’t find anything convincing… It seems to have started as something to do with panning for gold (i.e. using a literal pan to sift through dirt looking for gold flakes), but I can’t see where that shifted from “looking for small bits of good in mostly dirt” to “this straight up sucks”.

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Lowest-effort comment ever. A single character.

A dictionary’s a thing. Looking it up may require typing a second letter - and then a third! - but it’s good practice.