nine days' wonders

noun

variants also nine day wonders
plural of nine days' wonder
as in last words

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  1. last words
  2. tons
  3. hot tickets
  4. furors
  5. fads
  6. trends
  7. modes
  8. enthusiasms
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  • Continue reading … ‘NEVER WAVERED’ — Pence reveals Graham's last words to him in a vivid airport encounter.
    — , FOXNews.com, 16 July 2026
  • Mays’ last words spoken on camera were to a local TV station, MyFox Tampa Bay, after his flight made a rough landing at Tampa International Airport.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
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  • In the first half of this year, police reported seizing 80 tons of drugs, while in 2025 authorities confiscated nearly 215 tons, primarily cocaine.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele offered to send two planes loaded with 100 tons of aid.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
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  • The Story and American Buffalo are going to be hot tickets too.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
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  • There are several other ongoing furors about the president’s propensity to use his power in unusually personal ways.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 5 Oct. 2025
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  • Their strength has always been their ability to think beyond election cycles, market fluctuations, technological fads, and the crises of the moment.
    — David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • What separates sunmaxxing from earlier wellness fads is its economics.
    — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
Definition of fads
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  • But in recent years, social media has accelerated a few more drastic style trends, too.
    — Liz Regalia, Parents, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Google is launching its Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro series this week, setting new trends for the smartphone market.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of trends
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  • Early in the genre’s history, long before the advent of streaming and more passive modes of engaging with music, there was still an emphasis on sounds that got people moving.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2026
  • These latest results looked at several previously unreported decay modes of X(2370).
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of modes
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  • Two of Zohran Mamdani’s enthusiasms — better bus service and soccer — have, in the World Cup, found their moment of zingy cross-pollination.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 4 June 2026
  • The movie thus offers a complaint about the end results of Putinism, not about the ideas—the emotions, the enthusiasms, the resentments, the hatreds—that brought it about.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
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