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Feel connected to a celebrity you’ve never met in person? "Parasocial" has been crowned Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the ...

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Cambridge Dictionary announced its word of the year Nov. 18, noting that the virality of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s ...

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The dictionary said searches for its Word of the Year spiked as online celebrity moments intensified public interest in ...

Feel connected to a celebrity you’ve never met in person? “Parasocial” has been crowned Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year, highlighting the rise in “unhealthy” and “one-sided” relationships with ...

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Cambridge Dictionary has named parasocial as the Word of the Year for 2025. The year was marked by interest in the one-sided parasocial relationships that people form with celebrities, influencers and ...