Cambridge Dictionary has announced its 2024 word of the year is "manifest," a formal 600-year-old word that's been given new life as Olympians, entertainers and social media influencers increasingly claim they channel their wishes into realities.

Cambridge Dictionary has just announced the word of the year after Gen Z and celebrities including Dua Lipa couldn't stop using it.

Manifest” has been named Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year for 2024 – despite academics admitting the concept of manifesting your own success has no scientific validity.

The Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year 2024 pick has no scientific validity, yet it won the mainstream media this year.

Cambridge Dictionary has put it out to the universe, naming “manifest” as its word of the year for 2024.

Cambridge Dictionary has chosen its word the year, and it's manifest. It beat out brat (inspired by Charli XCX 's album of the same name), ecotarian, and resilience.

This is the time of the year when several year-end lists start to come out reflecting web searches and trends from the the past year. Many of the prominent dictionaries release their lists of the most searched for words from the year and usually they reflect pop culture trends.

Manifest’ is Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2024. On the dictionary’s website, the word has been searched for almost 130,000 times, making it one of the most viewed words of the year

Manifest,” of course, has multiple meanings—but the one driving this choice is “using methods of visualization and affirmation to imagine what you want, and the belief that doing so will make it more likely to happen.