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Example sentences for: trend

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Especially alarming is the news of a big increase among black teenagers, a group once believed to be curiously resistant to the teen smoking trend.
believes that the upward trend will continue.
I also observed that people used to want schools to be less like prisons, but that now the trend seems to be to make them more like prisons, adding language regulation to crowd control, uniforms, metal detectors, and locker searches.
My own theory (which I admit may be a stretch--but remember, I'm on drugs) is that it is part of a large anti-community trend: People want to have as little to do with other people as possible.
And that would seem to mean that this trend will be short-lived.