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noun
A cultural belief (especially a work of fiction) that makes itself real; a cultural self-fulfilling prophecy where some cultural idea or hype truly brings about the thing it describes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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History
Modelled on superstition (“belief, not based on reason, that one's behaviour can magically influence events”)
