fad
Example Sentences
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With government having so much power these days, political fads too often capture business leaders who don’t want to risk bad publicity.
“I think it’s a fad,” he said, adding that he finds it fun.
From Los Angeles Times
"People aren't going to remember Anthony Joshua for knocking out Jake Paul - George Foreman and Muhammad Ali fought fad events and journeymen, and nobody talks about that anymore."
From BBC
Today, this egalitarian idea is a fad that is going out of style.
Most of the exhibited objects are Japanese, indicating the coincidence between Cincinnati’s Gilded Age wealth and japonisme, the late-19th-century Western fad for Japanese culture.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
