fad suggests caprice in taking up or in dropping a fashion.
last year's fad is over
rage and craze stress intense enthusiasm in adopting a fad.
Cajun food was the rage nearly everywhere for a time
crossword puzzles once seemed just a passing craze but have lasted
Examples of rage in a Sentence
Noun
Her note to him was full of rage.
He was shaking with rage.
She was seized by a murderous rage.
His rages rarely last more than a few minutes. Verb
She raged about the injustice of their decision.
The manager raged at the umpire.
A storm was raging outside, but we were warm and comfortable indoors.
The fire raged for hours.
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Noun
But right now in the Premier League, long throws are all the rage.—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 Hope to run an LLM locally, as is all the rage right now?—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
Debate rages on in Pennsylvania as to whether the Eagles offense is too predictable, or simply ineffective after the Eagles lost their second straight game last week, an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the Giants on Thursday Night Football.—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025 In December last year, as debate raged about whether Arsenal had become too reliant on goals from dead-ball situations, their fans honoured the club’s set-piece coach Nicolas Jover with a mural in the Hornsey Road tunnel next to the Emirates Stadium.—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rage
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabies rage, madness, from rabere to be mad; akin to Sanskrit rabhas violence
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