zeitgeist
Example Sentences
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Garfunkel’s tender folk couldn’t be farther from the chrome-coated zeitgeist of the turn of the last century.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
He covers topics in the zeitgeist related to wellness, cultural etiquette, masculinity and lifestyle/style trends—basically all the weird, funny, inspired and horrifying things being thrown at us in this moment of "maxxing."
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
"It's not an exciting place to shop, or what it used to be for kids around Christmas. Under a new ownership you'd hope they could get it back into the zeitgeist."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
When betting on the artificial-intelligence trade outpaces gains in the world’s biggest digital currency by more than 200%, you know you’re witnessing a sea change in the global investment zeitgeist.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 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
