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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121) Ironically, it is the small educational software specialists rather than the big battalions who saw this trend developing.
122) All they can do is set trend targets and reward or penalize according to the degree to which they are met.
123) It was an absurd capper to the ongoing trend of expanding weather coverage.
124) Even analysts who have been busily downgrading tech stocks tend to characterize the rout as a correction, not a long-term trend.
125) This downward trend was so significant during this period that the average working day fell by around 1 hour.
126) The trend toward tabloidization and instant popularization has eroded the boundary lines between news and entertainment, objective journalism and advocacy.
127) No one trend dominates the market, but chenille continues to be a heavy favorite.
128) Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp. bucked the trend, gaining 3 3 / 4 to 77 1 / 4.
129) The recent trend toward cognitive approaches to metaphor provides a means of formalizing such a conception.
130) Another unsettling trend in this area is the erosion in our ability to design and manufacture products.
131) But water shares bucked the trend and, as usual, were a haven in times of trouble.
132) Instead they illustrate better the shifting balance within conglomerates between one media interest and another and secondly,[www.Sentencedict.com] the trend toward internationalization.
133) Return on sales is currently just below the industry average of 3. 5 percent, and shows a rapidly increasing trend.
134) The trend was illustrated by the new cemeteries, which were springing up on the cities' fringes.
135) In 1991 Soglo instituted an austerity program and privatized many state enterprises, a trend continued by Kerekou.
136) However, a case can be made out for cyclically adjusting such figures so that the long-term trend of unemployment may be observed.
137) If this trend continues, building societies are poised to provide a greater competitive challenge to the retail banking sector. 2.
138) Do not be alarmed by this trend but always warn the parents that it is a possibility.
139) One trend is toward a climatology geared more closely to the soil-water balance and the availability of soil water to plants.
140) Sales of electronics and batteries here mirror the international trend toward buying cordless, portable goods.
141) It misleadingly marginalizes both the centrality of the Church and classicism, the dominant artistic trend of the period.
142) The slight improvements in the eighteenth century are important because they mark the beginning of the downward trend.
143) When Semple departed, Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend.
144) The compulsory and emergency nature of the initial admission, however, is no different from the trend in current practice.
145) A gradual change observed over the course of several days is called a trend.
146) Through an important earlier development, the providers in the Eastern District had already anticipated the trend.
147) Then perhaps a hundred thousand people can change the trend, if they and their descendants labor for five hundred years.
148) Much of this trend is attributable to a strong economy, but there are other forces at work.
149) Companies making products for the Internet bucked the trend and held up well in the fourth quarter.
150) One of the clearest indications of the trend of modern capitalism has been the erosion of bourgeois democracy on a world scale.
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