fads
Example Sentences
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Digital journalism is as subject to fads as any other medium.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Instead, long stretches of the book read like disparate essays on donnish life, fads and internecine disagreements, strung together in a sequence that never coheres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
We have the opposite problem — mountains of rigorous scientific evidence, drowned out by noisy advice, marketing, and fads.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
Scientists and scholars are susceptible to career incentives, moral fads, groupthink and fear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
But such fads can persist in isolated societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
