prevailing fashion

collocation in English

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prevailing
adjective
uk
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/us
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/
existing in a particular place or at a ...
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fashion
noun
uk
/ˈfæʃ.ən/us
/ˈfæʃ.ən/
a style that is popular at a particular time, especially in clothes, hair, ...
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(Definition ofprevailingandfashionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There need be nothing wrong with so traditional an approach; one could imagine an interpretation open to the term 'reactionary' yet stimulating and enlightening as a counter toprevailingfashion.
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Such lists are bound to differ from author to author and in accordance with theprevailingfashionin taste.
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I do not believe that that is theprevailingfashionin society.
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There were boom periods when an insatiable demand created a corresponding supply of wholly questionable goods, which were fabricated and faked to suit theprevailingfashion.
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Stylistically, the strip is very much of its time, reflecting theprevailingfashionfor heaviness of line and a tendency to angularity.
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Theprevailingfashionat the time, particularly for engagement rings, was for them to be set with a single, large diamond.
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This was motivated by theprevailingfashionof the period, but also by economics and technology.
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He wrote in a tonal idiom regardless of the prevailing fashions, which meant that he was initially criticised as modernist, and later as a reactionary.
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These are made from one up to four plies and in a variety of qualities, sizes, folds, colours and patterns depending on intended use and prevailing fashions.
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This is essentially a human story that penetrates the established version of events and illuminates an urgent issue buried by prevailing fashions of what makes news.
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