fad
IPA: fˈæd
noun
- A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of flavin adenine dinucleotide.
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Examples of "fad" in Sentences
- Another fad of the 1920's was the radio.
- The series predates the whole vampire fad.
- It is the nature of fads that they are ephemeral.
- It is not faddish because it is not a passing fad.
- The mobile phone fad and the discman fad began in HK.
- In the 1850s, the aquarium became a fad in the United Kingdom.
- The fad dwindled as therapists became disenchanted in the 80s.
- Moreover, the ideal of the public intellectual is no newfangled fad.
- Britain's slavish copying of the latest fads in America goes too far
- Fashions and fads at times test the limits of community standards of modesty.
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