zeitgeist
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We are flirting with a zeitgeist, and we’re able to say in visuals and music and words — not what people want to hear, it’s like what they need to hear.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Pendleton introduced the Westerley sweater in 1974, but it didn’t enter the zeitgeist until 24 years later, when Joel and Ethan Coen released their masterwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Most agree that the zeitgeist of rap started to shift away from the stubbornly anachronistic rapper sometime around the end of the aughts.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
In an exercise culture driven by fads, can Hyrox hold its spot in the zeitgeist?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
And this active province of Béarn kept pace; it opened quickly to the new influences, was alive to the changing zeitgeist.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
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