Synonym: course, current, direction, drift, movement, tendency. Similar words: strengthen, render, entrepreneur, tremendous, rendezvous, tree, arena, rent. Meaning: [trend] n. 1. a general direction in which something tends to move 2. general line of orientation 3. a general tendency to change (as of opinion) 4. the popular taste at a given time. v. turn sharply; change direction abruptly.
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91) Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
92) The action reversed a trend in which the two countries appeared to be edging ever so slightly toward increased cooperation.
93) The trend in cardiovascular mortality with external conjugate was abolished by allowing for head circumference.
94) The second important trend has been the slight narrowing of the differentials between male and female workers in full-time occupation.
95) The government is betting this trend will boost business confidence, and thus investment and jobs.
96) This is a growing trend which meets the approval of EHOs.
97) The rate may fall below that, depending on the general trend of interest rates.
98) A rising inflationary trend and a persistent fiscal deficit during 1990 were exacerbated by the continuing civil war and rising petrol prices.
99) Analysts say this trend is even more remarkable because public universities run open admission policies and do not charge tuition.
100) It will be important to know whether the trend in nocturnal hospital admissions has changed since the new contract was introduced.
101) It is a worrying trend which the authorities - despite past assurances - seemed to have failed to get to grips with.
102) The great underlying trend in worker psychology is a sense that the only one you can depend on is yourself.
102) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
103) The trend is likely to place unprecedented demands on the health care system, principally for nursing and custodial care.
104) We saw too the marked trend to disavow deviance amongst the women whose personal histories are discussed in Chapter 2.
105) It smooths or blurs the image so that local deviations from the overall trend are removed.
106) Some academics try to counteract this trend by trying to identify the bright sparks and arrange special seminars for them.
107) The shares bucked the market trend(Sentencedict.com), rising one penny to 491p.
108) Bayer expects the current trend to have continued in Q4 of 1991.
109) The next stage of satellite development will accelerate this trend rapidly.
110) A trend had already been set in textiles, where the comparative advantage of cheap labour was becoming important.
111) This model promoted the assumption that evolution is based on a progressive trend with the human race as its goal.
112) Parts and accessories sales declined sharply, reversing an earlier trend.
113) Both the president and the Republican Congress want to reverse that trend with broadly similar plans.
114) The three-month trend shows sterling lending to the private sector averaging only about £1 billion a month.
115) Last year it took 32 % of the mobile phone market and is looking to buck the worldwide trend.
116) But the trend that I see for the next decade has already started.
117) The trend has hurt the pace of factory job creation nationwide, economists said.
118) The trend is not limited to the individual consumer. Private corporations and government are also getting into the act.
119) Cider is bucking the national trend ... beer sales fell by ten percent over the same period.
120) Out-migration, however, had become more interregional, a trend that became even stronger during the interwar depression years.
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