zeitgeist
Example Sentences
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The post-war zeitgeist also began putting them further and further out of favor as a preferred educational choice of some American parents for their sons.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
No candidate has polled higher than 20-some percent — a testament to how many are in the running, but also an indication that none of them has truly captured the zeitgeist of today’s California.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
A stage adaptation can’t duplicate the way Lumet visually distilled the rough-and-tumble New York zeitgeist of the tumultuous early 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
But these individual feats seem less important than the zeitgeist of the era.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
It went on and vanished among the fronds of a distant island; but the calm had been broken, and through all the stems there ran a restless sense of anticipation, a zeitgeist of prophetic import.
From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William
