bandwagon
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Reluctantly joining the bandwagon thanks to the rising cost of living is her friend Emmanuella.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Favorable polls lead to more fundraising. There’s a bandwagon effect.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The fund’s positioning became, in effect, one big bet on the AI trade and in July, the wheels came off that bandwagon.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 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
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
It’s the same with genre-hopping dance music behemoths Calvin Harris and Diplo, the latter having jumped on so many cultural bandwagons he must have full-body splinters.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2019
I'm not one to jump on any conspiracy theory bandwagons ... seriously, I'm not ... but in this case I'm increasingly suspicious.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
“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
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