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fad

[fad] / fæd /


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He also insists he is "not a food fad person" who cares much for trends - and criticises the way food is increasingly treated as simply hunger-quenching, discounting its richer significance.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

“It’s so easy for the opposition to say, ‘Well, this is just a new fad.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

When dentists start getting cold calls about private credit, you know the fad has peaked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

And here’s the lesson I’ve taken from 40 years of watching markets, as both an academic and a regulator: When something becomes a fad, it’s time to get out.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Robbie had put down his trowel and stood to roll a cigarette, a hangover from his Communist Party time—another abandoned fad, along with his ambitions in anthropology, and the planned hike from Calais to Istanbul.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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