trend

Example Sentences

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For investors, healthcare stocks are beneficiaries of a trend that doesn’t have much to do with the business cycle, that monetary policy can’t slow, and that demographics won’t reverse.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

One especially welcome trend in the report is the continuing decline in federal government employment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The trend in jobless claims — or applications for unemployment benefits — illustrates the low level of layoffs.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

She feared being called a clone, or a try-hard who’d hopped on a trend.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The increasing rate of executions in Alabama went against the national trend.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson