zeitgeist
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While public sentiment isn’t as easily measurable as capital expenditures, the fact that Merriam Webster crowned “slop” the word of the year for 2025 suggests that AI has fallen on the wrong side of the zeitgeist.
From MarketWatch
The expansion into entertainment is a way for Hallmark to stay in the zeitgeist over multiple generations and to diversify its business beyond just cards and retail products, analysts said.
From Los Angeles Times
The one-minute spot cleverly capitalizes on the zeitgeist’s knowledge of Paltrow’s relationship to Martin and uses that joke to spin the conversation in another direction, highlighting the Astronomer product’s actual function.
From Salon
Deeper even than what is usually attributed to the zeitgeist.
“Holiday Touchdown” is the second movie to come out of Hallmark’s partnership with the NFL — last year’s “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story” was the first, which “kind of tapped into some crazy zeitgeist moment last year,” DiPippo said, referring to the frenzy over the relationship between Taylor Swift and Chiefs player Travis Kelce.
From Los Angeles Times
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