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Google #ngram Viewer seems like a great tool for #writers who need to research what people were calling things during a specific era or span of years. https://books.google.com/ngrams/
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Example: A writer might wonder if “high-maintenance” was used to describe people in the 1960s. From this result, I’m inclined to think not.
The graph suggests that “high maintenance” was in use fairly consistently from 1950 to 2019, while “high-maintenance” with a hyphen was very low from 1950 to 1990, then rose steeply, peaking around 2015 and remaining significantly higher than it was before 1990.