Thesaurus results for BANDWAGON

bandwagon

noun

ˈband-ˌwa-gən

Definition of bandwagon

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 Also — please pause for my guffaws — Alabama is the bandwagon choice for the SEC. — Chris Branch, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Thomas says that starting around 2015, there was a lot of bad whiskey being produced as the category grew in popularity and investors jumped onto the whiskey bandwagon, charging premium prices for sub-standard liquid. — Don Tse, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 With a favorable 2026 schedule, donors warming up and quarterback Nico Iamaleava on board, UCLA’s football bandwagon is rumbling back to life. — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026 China has already jumped on that bandwagon, too, with plans to develop an orbital data center network within the next five years. — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 20 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for bandwagon

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bandwagon

Noun

The team put in one of their most insipid performances of the campaign that day — a first real sign the wheels may be coming off for Daniel Farke.

— Beren Cross, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Chuck Hatfield, the attorney for the referendum campaign, said Hanaway’s move was no surprise.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of campaign

Noun

There’s been little movement on the key Democratic demand, an ethics component governing the president and his family, according to two Democratic aides.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026
That headroom is not vast, which is why any January incomings likely require offsetting by movement outwards.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of movement

Noun

But for all his protestations, many saw the war on terror as a crusade—a word that Bush himself used early on until he was told how poorly that played in the Islamic world.

— Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
Uthmeier’s suit opens another front in Florida’s legal crusade against major technology platforms.

— Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of crusade

Noun

My colleague Susanne Rust obtained internal documents from an industry group that reveal a coordinated push to dismantle California’s single use plastic law.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
That push continues Sunday when Miami plays its next league match at Nu Stadium against San Diego.

— Andre C. Fernandez, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026