How to Use buzzword in a Sentence

buzzword

noun
  • Protein might be the buzzword of the year.
    — Lex Goldstein, SELF, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Fun and structure are the buzzwords.
    — Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 19 June 2026
  • No useless buzzwords or graphs.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
  • The buzzword of the moment, and a key factor right now.
    — The Editors, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The therapist says that in this case, burnout is more than a buzzword.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
  • As the buzzwords wear off, some have begun asking, what’s the point?
    — Wired, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Not as a buzzword, but as a principle.
    — Sanjoy Sarkar, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Google doesn’t always explain its buzzwords very well.
    — ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
  • There’s a new hot buzzword in the streaming video business — it’s spelled f-r-e-e.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2022
  • Indeed, the buzzword salad left us queasy.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026
  • Thirty years later and aero is still the buzzword in bike design.
    — Andrew Diprose, Wired, 19 July 2019
  • Explaining all of those buzzwords is too much for a short answer.
    — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Exosomes are one of many buzzwords in the skincare field right now.
    — Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The rest of the ad is a standard-issue mad lib of ominous right-wing buzzwords.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
  • But at the same time, shunning the buzzword is very, very Apple.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • For once, sovereignty has a chance of becoming more than just a buzzword.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 27 July 2025
  • Barak Diskin isn’t chasing buzzwords.
    — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Sometimes, those are corporate buzzwords said by a guy who wants to please his boss.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The tech world is full of buzzwords, but not all of them lead to real business outcomes.
    — Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Gut health has become one of the biggest wellness buzzwords around.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026
  • That spirit is one of bucking the status quo; even of self-care—that pesky buzzword.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Lifelong learning, or more apt these days, long life learning isn’t a buzzword.
    — Vicki Phillips, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • So quality isn’t just a buzzword.
    — Larry Light, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • No fluff, no buzzwords, just clarity.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Wiesner understands a lot of that can come off as a jumble of buzzwords.
    — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2018
  • Culture is a buzzword that is often thrown out at the outset of a new coach’s tenure.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The options are endless and so too, is the marketing around this catchy buzzword.
    — NBC News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • In today's tech-savvy world, AI is the buzzword of the moment.
    — Lyle Pratt, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • 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

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