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as in leaning
to show a liking or proneness (for something)
during the winter our school system trends toward canceling school at the drop of a hat—or at least a snowflake
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as in curving
to turn away from a straight line or course
the river trends east, then west again, forming an oxbow
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Recent Examples of trending
Focus on fitness and socializing with people who enrich your life by offering commonsense alternatives to what’s trending.
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Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
By Wednesday evening local time, it was not listed among trending topics at all.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Julia is a trending reporter for USA TODAY.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
And their next step might be to start holding matches abroad and - the way things are trending - Saudi Arabia could be a likely destination given this blossoming relationship.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
John Tufts covers trending news for IndyStar and Midwest Connect.
—John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2024
Most recently, a new offering of trending chocolate brown bags is available, from Manu Atelier, Madewell, and Hunting Season—an assemblage for every price point.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
By Wednesday evening local time, it was not listed among trending topics at all.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Julia is a trending reporter for USA TODAY.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
And their next step might be to start holding matches abroad and - the way things are trending - Saudi Arabia could be a likely destination given this blossoming relationship.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
John Tufts covers trending news for IndyStar and Midwest Connect.
—John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2024
Most recently, a new offering of trending chocolate brown bags is available, from Manu Atelier, Madewell, and Hunting Season—an assemblage for every price point.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trending
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The Democratic-leaning Latino groups pushed back on that narrative, citing their own polling.Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Their cutbacks on spending forced a reckoning among restaurants, with fast-food brands like McDonald’s leaning into value menus and full-service chains like Red Lobster embarking on ambitious makeovers.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The flower’s strong, curving stem makes the work not so much forceful as definitive.Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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But by using the holographic dictionary to look at the particles from their other perspective, as a gently curving space-time, physicists can calculate the outcome using Einstein’s gravity equations and then translate the answer back to get a sense of how the nuclei would smash together.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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Doing so decreases likelihood of encountering a rival whitetail, and so, the buck can focus on tending the doe.Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 3 Oct. 2024
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Doing so decreases likelihood of encountering a rival whitetail, and so, the buck can focus on tending the doe.Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Trending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trending. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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