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crazes

  • plural of craze.
  • present tense form of craze (3rd person singular).

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At its peak, Unity was a wildly popular game engine and the driving force behind viral crazes like Pokémon Go.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The company went public at the beginning of October and has positioned itself at the crossroads of two crazes: the build-out of more data centers to power artificial intelligence and a potential U.S. nuclear-power resurgence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

We’ve seen this before with the Stanley cup and Hydro Flask crazes, in which a rather mundane item becomes all the rage amongst consumers and, more infamously, resellers.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

These technologies have the potential to generate speculative investment crazes that cost investors dearly, as we saw during the “meme stock” frenzy of 2021.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024

The waves of recurring crime, the silly fads and crazes, the quicksilver changes in public taste, the hysteria and fears—all of these had long been mysteries to me.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright