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bandwagon

[band-wag-uhn] / ˈbændˌwæg ən /




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The indicator’s theoretical rationale is that households are late to jump on the market’s bandwagon, and are therefore most bullish at or near tops and most bearish at or near bottoms.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

“Favorable polls lead to more fundraising. There’s a bandwagon effect.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Paze wants to convince this older group to get on the bandwagon, and it recently ramped up the effort with ads and promotions targeting this demographic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Not everyone is ready to join the app bandwagon just yet.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Griffith’s experiment may have stuffed genetics into a one-way taxicab and sent it scuttling toward a strange future—but Avery was reluctant to climb on that bandwagon.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

He hopped on all the avant-gardist bandwagons the Paris art world offered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2020

“People start jumping on bandwagons on whatever we’re talking about and you just shake your head and it’s like, really? That’s not even reality,” he said Sunday.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2016

Others just like to jump on bandwagons and back winners.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2016

Nor is this about commandeering bandwagons, trans or otherwise.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2016

Finally, a few bandwagons I couldn’t get on: ‘Girls,’ ‘Orphan Black,’ ‘Mad Men.’

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2013




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