How to Use buzzword in a Sentence

buzzword

noun
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  • In today's tech-savvy world, AI is the buzzword of the moment.
    — Lyle Pratt, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In the past, STEM was the buzzword in the education space.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2020
  • But at the same time, shunning the buzzword is very, very Apple.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • As the buzzwords wear off, some have begun asking, what’s the point?
    — Wired, 28 Oct. 2019
  • One way to combat overusing buzzwords and niche terms: Start at the top.
    — Brooks Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2023
  • In the six months since, a new buzzword has taken precedence: habits.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
  • There’s a new hot buzzword in the streaming video business — it’s spelled f-r-e-e.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2022
  • This term has become a sudden buzzword among the Trump-ites in the Valley.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 July 2024
  • What matters is that metaverse is now the buzzword du jour and that Facebook wants a piece of it.
    — Amit Katwala, Wired, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The tech world is full of buzzwords, but not all of them lead to real business outcomes.
    — Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
  • There’s your run-of-the-mill bottled water, but there’s also a load of health buzzwords to parse through.
    — USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
  • That spirit is one of bucking the status quo; even of self-care—that pesky buzzword.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Alignment isn’t the only buzzword to come out of the search that led the Browns to Kevin Stefanski.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The term was nominated as one of Japan’s top buzzwords of 2023.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Thirty years later and aero is still the buzzword in bike design.
    — Andrew Diprose, Wired, 19 July 2019
  • The options are endless and so too, is the marketing around this catchy buzzword.
    — NBC News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Culture is a buzzword that is often thrown out at the outset of a new coach’s tenure.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Gaslighting has become a bit of a buzzword in recent years.
    — Jody Michael, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • Alignment was the buzzword of the offseason and the offseason felt about as aligned as any the Browns have had since coming back in 1999.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2020
  • That, and, of course, the postgame buzzword drinking game slowly driving the die-hards to liver failure.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
  • One response said the phrase is simply a buzzword and scapegoat for any item that doesn't arrive on time.
    — Naomi Ludlow, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Of course, the easiest step is to ditch lazy expressions and buzzwords.
    — Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes, those are corporate buzzwords said by a guy who wants to please his boss.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Le Meurice was one of the first hotels to tap Philippe Starck for its ground floor in 2007 before his name became a buzzword.
    — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 15 May 2021
  • The metaverse, or Web 3.0, has been the buzzword of choice in Silicon Valley in recent months.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Maybe Deplorables and Davosians should join forces and hunt down hack screenwriters trying to sell us the hottest buzzwords of four years ago.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 12 Mar. 2020
  • That’s why consent is the new buzzword for nuclear waste.
    — James Conca, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Skip to main content The U.S. national debt and deficit have become buzzwords for the 2020 election.
    — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2019
  • All the buzzwords are in play with this Alabama offensive line in Texas A&M week.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Self-care is a buzzword some of us are still trying to master while others have become pros at it.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 8 Feb. 2022

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