zeitgeist
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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
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
The splintering of mass media, the confluence of a cultural icon whose priorities are so admirable — the zeitgeist will simply never again support someone so pure of heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
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
