craze

The craze is reflected on social media, where fried chicken has had a renaissance.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Some of the urchin phenomenon can be traced to social media, of course, and the way it can turn a product into a viral craze via TikTok, Instagram and the like.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

“San Francisco right now is having this moment around AI and the billboards. ... The overall craze around the industry has become a cultural moment.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The duo were pioneers of the aerobics craze that gripped the nation during that decade and helped create the National Aerobic Championship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Unlike most Americans, however, Holmes sought also to capitalize on the craze by buying bicycles on credit, then reselling them without ever paying off the initial purchase.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

You could say that frozen-yogurt trends come in crazes, not phases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Thanks to social media and modern health crazes, hydration is no longer about just drinking water — and that has kicked off a corporate rush to develop and market more sophisticated drinks.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

At its peak, Unity was a wildly popular game engine and the driving force behind viral crazes like Pokémon Go.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

These technologies have the potential to generate speculative investment crazes that cost investors dearly, as we saw during the “meme stock” frenzy of 2021.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024

The waves of recurring crime, the silly fads and crazes, the quicksilver changes in public taste, the hysteria and fears—all of these had long been mysteries to me.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

After 10 days of crazed moviegoing at the Cannes Film Festival, Times film critic Amy Nicholson and Times film editor Joshua Rothkopf are all but spent.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

“It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances!”

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

My biggest outlay has been for the skinny tires, which my wife, Tina, wears out like a crazed teenager.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

It brought people who saw the hordes of crazed support as a money faucet—an opportunity to turn Tesla allegiance into a financial gold mine.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

Wylan did the same, and for a moment they hung, pulling on the chain like a couple of crazed squirrels who hadn’t mastered climbing.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

But the Bureau of Land Management still moved to protect them with new rules that would limit mining, development and cattle crazing — all of which represent lucrative revenue for industries and the states.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2015

As bad as we’ve played, people might think I’m crazing for saying we don’t believe we’re out of it.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2011

Too thick a finish will cause cooling, crazing and cracking.

From Time Magazine Archive

While unsuspended wheels the village dance, The maidens eye him with inquiring glance, Much wondering what sad stroke of crazing Care Or desperate Love could lead a wanderer there.

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by William Knight

But how can I believe she does when I see that it is breaking her poor heart, and crazing her brain, and killing her?

From Her Mother's Secret by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth