trendy
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Origin of trendy
Explanation
Trendy describes something that's stylish or popular, like skinny jeans or fancy coffee drinks. If your shoes are the newest, coolest kind of sneakers, they are trendy. If all of your neighbors seem to suddenly have Great Dane puppies, you can say that's a trendy dog breed in your neighborhood. Trendy is a relatively recent adjective, first formed in the mid-1960's from the noun trend, which originally meant "the way something bends," and later came to mean "general tendency."
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Then go back to looking at those beachfront condos with beautiful views and trendy historic lofts, all the while dreaming about your future adventures.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
On Friday evenings, hundreds of people gather at Ponysaurus Brewing Co., a trendy spot in Durham, North Carolina, to savor its craft beers and cocktails, hardly the place you’d expect a school to open.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
In July, it acquired Depop, a trendy secondhand fashion platform based in London, for $1.2 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Yeti has been contending with competitive pressure in its drinkware business lately, with trendy brands like Owala and Stanley dragging on demand for its insulated water bottles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
“You know, sometimes it does feel like we’re in one of those trendy dystopian novels,” she admitted.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
By the early 80s psychobillies, soul boys, trendies, goths, skinheads, rockers, and mods all co-existed, often uneasily.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2015
Young trendies run it; even younger trendies sit at long tables sipping complicated coffees.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2014
Could Hackney's hipster-baiter ever concede that east London's trendies might, in the words of one n+1 contributor, remind us of "youth and daring and style, that we don't have any more or perhaps never did?"
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2010
Here and there, sunglassed trendies wearing 3-in. platform shoes, English-slogan T shirts and zipper-pocketed jeans share the sidewalks with young women whose ruffled shirts are incongruously set off by knee-high stockings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scottsdale is a wealthy suburb of Phoenix, known as "Scottsdull" to scoffing local trendies, but well-equipped with posh shopping-malls and manicured lawns, while conspicuously undersupplied with homeless derelicts.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
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From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
But on a call with analysts following results, CEO Brian Niccol focused on what he said was working for the company — trendier products, faster service and more food options.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
It was popular for decades and produced the country's first musical superstars, but has more recently struggled to compete with newer, trendier sounds, particularly with the global rise of K-pop.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
“Even with the low prices, business was good until around 2016, when I started seeing all the art galleries and trendier restaurants coming to the neighborhood,” Luu said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
He calls back, but I don't answer, because I'm on Facebook, looking at Tiny's profile, paging through his 1,532 friends, each cuter and trendier than the last.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
In the historic Japanese city of Kanazawa, craftsmen painstakingly shape and slice blocks of ice destined to chill negronis in some of the world's trendiest bars.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
LAS VEGAS—The newest lounge at Harry Reid International Airport serves lobster rolls and avocado toast, and its bartenders mix cocktails worthy of the trendiest bars on The Strip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
It is still being widely shared, and is regularly played in the trendiest places in the country's major cities.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025
So unless Princess Akemi had the trendiest French magazines, it just doesn’t make sense for her to use it.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023
As Chinatown has become one of L.A.’s trendiest dining destinations, its elderly immigrant residents live in a food desert, struggling to buy groceries easily and affordably.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
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