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bandwagon

[band-wag-uhn] / ˈbændˌwæg ən /




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The environmental movement has jumped on the bandwagon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

“Favorable polls lead to more fundraising. There’s a bandwagon effect.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Ballet flats are back in vogue, and that’s prompted some unlikely companies to hop on the bandwagon with their own riffs on the classic shoe silhouette.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Not everyone is ready to join the app bandwagon just yet.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Everybody jumped on the bandwagon and said, “We’re gonna change things in the Ida B. Wells!”

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones

One can get a serious case of whiplash watching Bill Plaschke jump on and off bandwagons based on the results of one game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

It’s the same with genre-hopping dance music behemoths Calvin Harris and Diplo, the latter having jumped on so many cultural bandwagons he must have full-body splinters.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2019

“People start jumping on bandwagons on whatever we’re talking about and you just shake your head and it’s like, really? That’s not even reality,” he said Sunday.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2016

Others just like to jump on bandwagons and back winners.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2016

Finally, a few bandwagons I couldn’t get on: ‘Girls,’ ‘Orphan Black,’ ‘Mad Men.’

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2013




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