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Collins Dictionary announced "brat" as its word of the year Friday, calling it a "cultural phenomenon that has resonated with people globally." The word sparked a cultural movement after British artist Charli XCX released her sixth studio album, “Brat,” in June. "Brat summer established itself as an aesthetic and a way of life,” Collins Dictionary wrote on its website. It defined “brat" as having “a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude.”Representatives for Charli XCX did not immediately respond to a request for comment. While some mistook "brat" as having a negative connotation, Charli XCX and her fans declared that it was someone who was unapologetically themselves.

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☆ ‘Brat’ is 2024’s word of the year, according to Collins Dictionary
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —More than a “brat summer” – it may even be a brat year. Noonoo, a chihuahua dressed as 'brat', is seen during the Halloween Dog Parade in New York, on October 19, 2024. Caitlin Ochs/ReutersThe dictionary credited British singer Charli XCX with making “brat” one of the most talked-about words in 2024. That’s brat,” she said in a video explaining the word on TikTok. Annette Corsino, owner of the Knitting Tree LA, works on a "brat" hat in support of presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris in Inglewood, California, on July 31, 2024.

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☆ Are Hannah and Nick from 'Love Is Blind' season 7 still together? The couple had a tense time in Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Hannah and Nick are one couple who make it out of the pods to the group vacation in Mexico. AdvertisementWarning: Spoilers ahead through episode six of "Love Is Blind" season seven. While Hannah continues to date Nick and Leo, Nick tells her that he loves her first, and she reciprocates. AdvertisementHannah and Nick still follow each other on InstagramRight now, it's unclear if Hannah and Nick are still together. The next episodes of "Love Is Blind" season seven will air on Wednesday, October 9 on Netflix.

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☆ What’s a ‘Girl Dinner’ Got to Do to Get Into the Dictionary These Days?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Sam Corbin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you feel like you’re drowning in neologisms lately, you’re not delulu. The uptick in coinages has been noted by culture writers and TikTok users alike. There’s even a meme for slang overload, though it has been around since 2020. Girl dinner, an informal phrase credited to the TikTok user Olivia Maher that describes a light, charcuterie board-like meal, was inducted as an entry on Dictionary.com this month. It joins other newly inducted informal nouns and slang terms — including bussin’, the ick and pretty privilege — whose rise has been driven at least in part by social media.

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☆ Gen Z are turning to TikTok for career advice, survey finds, as creators share workplace tips like 'corporate flirting' and being 'delulu'
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gen Z are not just using TikTok for fun but are instead gleaning useful career advice from the app. They say it's helped them get promotions and raises, an EduBirdie survey of 2,000 Gen Zers found. However, some Gen Zers are getting into trouble for their posts or for repeating misinformation. Instead it's providing an essential lifeline for Gen Zers trying to understand corporate norms. 55% of Gen Z have gotten into trouble for sharing misinformation from TikTok at school, work, and in their personal lives.

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☆ Wild price inflation and a blocky design: Elon Musk's $60,990 Cybertruck is a totally ludicrous idea
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tesla's Cybertruck still makes no sense. Elon Musk livestreamed a delivery event for the pickup truck on Thursday. How it makes sense for Tesla, Elon Musk, or people's daily commutes is still anyone's guess. On its website, Tesla describes the vehicle as being "built for any planet," thanks to its durable and rugged design. "The truck looks absolutely awful.

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☆ Who Are You Calling ‘Delulu’?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Yaa Addae | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Call it magical thinking or manifesting, but the belief that people can influence their reality through sheer will has existed for centuries. Now, there’s a new term for this idea: “delulu.”Derived from the word delusional, delulu first gained popularity this summer as shorthand for unrelenting confidence. (Posts with the word have more than five billion views on TikTok.) Though it has roots in the K-pop community to describe a fan’s parasocial relationship with a celebrity, delulu is now widely used by Gen Z-ers and young millennials to describe the process of making the seemingly impossible possible — or at least of coming to believe that they can. In the words of Bianca Bernardo, a 23-year-old content creator in Los Angeles: “May all your delulu come trululu, because being delulu is the solulu.”

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☆ How to negotiate your dream job
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementBut first, negotiate, negotiate, negotiate. September is called the harvest moon, corn moon, and barley moon. While March is called the worm moon, sap moon, and crow moon. In other newsBeing "delulu" about a crush or job opportunity could help you achieve your dreams, a therapist said.

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☆ Gen Zers are making themselves delusional to be taken seriously at work. We've been here before – will we ever learn?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Sirena Bergman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gen Zers are saying they need to be "delulu" to get ahead in their careers. It's something Gen Z thinks you have to embrace if you want your life to go the way you planned, including your career. As my Gen Z colleague Sawdah Bhaimiya wrote: "Being delusional is more than just a fun trend on social media. Employment-wise, Gen Z is not in a bad spot. Gen Z workers are stereotyped as being "difficult," "lazy," or socially inept.

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☆ TikTokers say it pays to be 'delulu' or delusional at work if you want to get ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tiktokers are saying that being "delulu" or delusional can help you achieve professional success. Being delusional – or as TikTok users like to say, "delulu" – is a technique in which having radical self-confidence can help you bag a dream job or get that long-awaited promotion. Although it seems counter-productive, TikTok users are lapping up the advice – the hashtag #delulu has 1.6 billion views while #delulugirl has 233.8 million views. She concluded: "The moral of the story is to just be 'delulu' because you're already jobless so it can only go up from here." Another user posted a video saying she quit her full-time job with no plan lined up after but she is "in delulu land thinking everything will work out."

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