as in campaign
a series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal
tried to get everyone on the bandwagon about forming a neighborhood cleanup
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Recent Examples of bandwagon
While naysayers might roll their eyes at another celebrity hopping on the book club bandwagon, a recent study conducted by iScience found that the proportion of the US population who read for pleasure on an average day declined over the last 20 years.
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Emily St. Martin, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Lee Mid-Rise Flare Jeans Drew Barrymore has also hopped on the flare jeans bandwagon, and this Lee pair is a close lookalike for her style.
—Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Carr, for his part, didn’t just jump on the bandwagon; the FCC chief was its grand marshal.
—Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Notion jumped on the bandwagon early.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
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Emily St. Martin, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Lee Mid-Rise Flare Jeans Drew Barrymore has also hopped on the flare jeans bandwagon, and this Lee pair is a close lookalike for her style.
—Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Carr, for his part, didn’t just jump on the bandwagon; the FCC chief was its grand marshal.
—Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Notion jumped on the bandwagon early.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bandwagon
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After previously awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants to organizations around the country were canceled in April, Wisconsin Humanities went into survival mode and launched an emergency fundraising campaign.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Skattebo began the year as the backup running back but quickly worked his way into becoming the workhorse of the Giants’ offense, recording 101 carries for 410 yards and five touchdowns through the first half of his rookie campaign.—
Cole Sullivan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Artists of the art nouveau and German Jugendstil movements channeled Haeckel’s discoveries into their work, as did such leading architects and designers as Antoni Gaudí and Louis Sullivan.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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The free-trade agenda sought to deregulate the labor market and prioritize market efficiency, strengthening the hands of employers and severely weakening union and social movements, as anti-free traders had predicted.—
Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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His secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, advocates for a new Christian crusade, literally.—
James Druckman,
Mercury News,
17 Oct. 2025
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Pacino plays a powerful mob boss whose empire collides with Father Joe’s crusade.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025
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That started with the volleyball spike of a 7-foot-1 player’s hook shot and continued to the tallest player in the league calmly breaking into a left-handed push dribble, coming under control and then hitting a complex six-dribble sequence and stepback 3-pointer plus the foul.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Vernengo said the reclassification of drug dealers as terrorists has led many in the region to assume that there is a push for a possible invasion of Venezuela, whose neighbors have no choice but to have a relationship with the United States.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Bandwagon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bandwagon. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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