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zeitgeist

[tsahyt-, zahyt-gahyst] / ˈtsaɪt-, ˈzaɪtˌgaɪst /


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But for the next couple of nights in L.A., a genuinely beguiling and astringent new rock band is at the height of its powers and has captured the zeitgeist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

As professional spinners of reputation and reshapers of meaning, marketers have long created newfangled jobs or pithy descriptions to slot their work into the zeitgeist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

If that’s not breaking the zeitgeist bubble, I don’t know what is.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Do you represent the zeitgeist of the moment or are you wasting everybody’s time?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

People all over the world who are really secret agents for some other time zone, some other way of looking at the world, some other zeitgeist.

From Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow


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