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fad

[fad] / fæd /


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A duplex fad is spreading among the city’s developers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

He also insists he is "not a food fad person" who cares much for trends - and criticises the way food is increasingly treated as simply hunger-quenching, discounting its richer significance.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Both Lazzareschi and Diaz have more “KPop Demon Hunters”-inspired events coming up, but Tzagournis believes the peak of the fad has already passed — at least for now.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

When the marketing of a complex, illiquid financial product reaches the unsolicited-mail-to-retired-dentists stage, you’re looking at a market that has become a fad.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Robbie had put down his trowel and stood to roll a cigarette, a hangover from his Communist Party time—another abandoned fad, along with his ambitions in anthropology, and the planned hike from Calais to Istanbul.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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