THE WORD OF THE YEAR: MANIFEST

The Cambridge Dictionary has named their Word of the Year for 2024: manifest. (* Yeah. It just kinda lies there. Manifest.) Publishing manager Wendalyn Nichols said there were 130,000 searches for ‘manifest’ on the Cambridge Dictionary website this year. She says the word “increased notably in lookups,” adding: “Its use widened greatly across all types of media due to events in 2024. The word gained traction with Gen Z on TikTok and other social media platforms, and was used by pop star Dua Lipa and gymnast Simone Biles when discussing their own success.”
* That is so manifest.
* Use it in a sentence: “Manny Pacquiao, Manny Ramirez, and Manny Machado will all be guest speakers at the MannyFest this year.”
* They pick ‘manifest’ when ‘skibidi’ was sitting right there the whole time.
* The new meaning is … using visualization and affirmation to coax the universe into making something you want to happen, happen. But it doesn’t work. I tried to manifest a really good word of the year.
* I wouldn’t put too much stock in the Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year. Not a lot of thought goes into it. Last year, their word was “grape.”