trend
Example Sentences
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At the same time, productivity growth is slowing—an ominous trend when the country’s population is falling.
This comes at a time when the long term trend shows that fewer people are using buses.
From BBC
Reversing that trend would run up against global economic forces far larger than any single policy dispute.
From Barron's
When these measurements were fed into evolutionary models, a clear trend emerged: species that devoted less of their body to cuticle tended to form larger colonies.
From Science Daily
"The overarching trend is how many people say what a brilliant bloke he was to bump into."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
