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Gen Z is pushing back against influencers, delighting in Obama-era signifiers like frozen yogurt and fighting off the “tradwife” trend.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Experts say the abrupt about-face on California’s once-heralded nuclear exit reflects a broader trend as the state grapples with an electricity future almost no one saw coming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

For Opel, these measures are part of a long-term trend.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of early web titan Netscape, perhaps started this trend in 2023 with a 5,000-word essay he called "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto", which argued innovation was the way to solve life's problems.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

National and state laws and a trend toward teaching and testing “core subjects” reshape social perceptions and create a permanent culture that continually marginalizes the arts in the curriculum.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

While European liquidity broadly follows American trends, there is one sphere in which the liquidity cycle differs markedly: China, which is also travelling in the opposite direction, according to Howell.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

"The inspiration and trends come from the East. There's an incredible intensity of innovation in places like Japan, Korea and China and the markets are growing and expanding in a phenomenal way."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Some companies such as American Tungsten say they aren’t following marketing trends and their names simply describe what their companies do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

These sorts of trends are virtually unprecedented outside recessions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

After all, why shouldn’t our styles be seen as equal to the latest trends from Europe, instead of mere curiosities?

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

While stocks have generally trended higher across all periods, Kaeppel explained that returns during the unfavorable stretches have been far more volatile and inconsistent than what has been seen during the favorable periods.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

The measure, which policymakers closely watch as a gauge of underlying inflation, has remained above 2% since September 2025 and has trended higher in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Fasting blood glucose trended downward across groups, and several lipid related measures also improved.

From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026

“He’s been doing great. He’s trended in the right direction the last couple weeks. But I still feel that it’s still the right thing to give him a day.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026

Still, Penelope convinced herself that the havoc trended in one direction slightly more so than in the other.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

CAP’s paper used an “interrupted time-series analysis” to argue that crime was already trending down prior to the deployments, and that the National Guard interventions had “no measurable effect” on those trends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The news of his death quickly shot to top trending on social media platform Weibo, with the topic gaining more than 190 million views just hours after it was announced.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Goodman was definitely trending this weekend, but thankfully he is alive and well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Earlier this week, Seoul's meteorological administration forecast a 50% probability that temperatures in September and October could continue trending higher than average.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

We’re a trending story on Twitter—probably Facebook, too.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper