zeitgeist
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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
“Do you represent the zeitgeist of the moment or are you wasting everybody’s time?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
"I put my finger up the zeitgeist to see what was hot at the time and I thought we have got to include Yes Sir, I Can Boogie," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Jew noted that social media has created a kind of zeitgeist around specific dishes.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 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 William Beebe
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