NINE DAY WONDERS Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

nine days' wonders

noun

variants also nine day wonders

plural of nine days' wonder

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Noun

Through a microphone, the journalists listened as Pike spoke what were meant to be her last words—about love—and sang with her Buddhist spiritual adviser.

— Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
Smolensk, Russia, February 1837 and February 1860 Belatedly, John’s last words reached Adelaide.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026

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The effect is something like an off-season approximation of a sidewalk, and, your winter climate permitting, sidewalk chalk (tons of it, for $18) is another good option.

— Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
The natural gas storage well failed and uncontrollably released nearly 100,000 tons of methane and other substances into the atmosphere for more than 100 days.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

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And given that culture is now so tied to trends and developments online, fads can take over very quickly and spread around the world in minutes.

— Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 24 Oct. 2026
D’Souza has tested many of the agents that have experienced fads over the last year, like OpenClaw and Hermes Agent.

— Andrew R. Chow, Time, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of fads

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For brands, that means relevance may come less from chasing micro trends and more from making room for distinct communities and creative voices.

— Denni Hu, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
If consumer sentiment follows a similar path, that could explain the divergence between generally strong economic trends and weak consumer sentiment.

— Erin Kay Lockwood, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of trends

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Tyson offered up his thoughts and enthusiasms on this remarkable investigatory tool.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of enthusiasms

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