1
: all the fans (as of a sport)
2
: the state or attitude of being a fan
Examples of fandom in a Sentence
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As dreamlike as her Breaking Bad experience was, Gunn will forever be reminded of her encounter with the toxic side of fandom.
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Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
With 170 million users, Wattpad Webtoon has leveraged its massive fandom into deals with Netflix, Sony and Vertigo Entertainment.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
The team’s fandom continues to grow with more logo stickers on cars and people wearing team shirts seen around town, in addition to flocking to the games themselves.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 18 Apr. 2024
Most Influential People list, Mahomes, 28, credited Swift, 34, for taking the Chiefs' fandom global last season amid her relationship with Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce.
—Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
This magazine’s own Roger Angell shifted that mode into unapologetic fandom, in which the point was not to be an insider at all but to watch from a perspective as bemused and engaged as that of Henry James watching Daisy Miller—empathy without undue explication.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Families, fandoms, and 'FJB' For the next hundred years, this is going to be talked about.
—Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
Tokyo Vice fandom pages indicate that Kasamatsu’s portrayal of Sato leaps off of the screen, similar to the series’ main star Ansel Elgort, who plays real-life American journalist Jake Adelstein, who moved to Japan in the ‘90s to cover the world of the yakuza.
—Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
The Dodgers’ management have been open about their plan to use Ohtani and another recent and expensive Japanese acquisition, the young pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, to convert a generation of Japanese people to Dodgers fandom.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
With 170 million users, Wattpad Webtoon has leveraged its massive fandom into deals with Netflix, Sony and Vertigo Entertainment.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
The team’s fandom continues to grow with more logo stickers on cars and people wearing team shirts seen around town, in addition to flocking to the games themselves.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 18 Apr. 2024
Most Influential People list, Mahomes, 28, credited Swift, 34, for taking the Chiefs' fandom global last season amid her relationship with Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce.
—Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
This magazine’s own Roger Angell shifted that mode into unapologetic fandom, in which the point was not to be an insider at all but to watch from a perspective as bemused and engaged as that of Henry James watching Daisy Miller—empathy without undue explication.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Families, fandoms, and 'FJB' For the next hundred years, this is going to be talked about.
—Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
Tokyo Vice fandom pages indicate that Kasamatsu’s portrayal of Sato leaps off of the screen, similar to the series’ main star Ansel Elgort, who plays real-life American journalist Jake Adelstein, who moved to Japan in the ‘90s to cover the world of the yakuza.
—Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
The Dodgers’ management have been open about their plan to use Ohtani and another recent and expensive Japanese acquisition, the young pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, to convert a generation of Japanese people to Dodgers fandom.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Fandom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fandom. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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