BANDWAGON EFFECT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity

Example:

polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("bandwagon effect" is a kind of...):

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

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