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  • noun Plural form of trendsetter.

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Examples

  • Cross is not only aware of this fact, but for 160 years, a Cross pen has been the distinguishing detail that separates the trendsetters from the masses.

    Cross Pens – A Time-Tested Tradition 2006

  • They're called trendsetters, or grasses, a take - home British slang for an informant.

    CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2006 2006

  • I conclude that the people got there first and the so-called trendsetters followed.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • I conclude that the people got there first and the so-called trendsetters followed.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • EM has always been known as trendsetters, and a website that likes to feature folks who are on the cusp of breaking it big.

    EclipseMagazine 2009

  • Second, the argument has been made that what celebrities model, the rest of us follow and to some extent this is true -- they're not called "trendsetters" for their ability to raise hunting dogs -- but I would also argue that celebs, especially the young vocal ones who haven't yet learned that everything they say can and will be used against them in the court of public opinion, are only repeating what they've been told so often... by us.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Charlotte Hilton Andersen 2011

  • But most importantly, you core shoppers are the "trendsetters" in natural foods, according to the Hartman Group, the hum at the center of the hive.

    Barth Anderson: Whole Foods and Michael Pollan: Wrong to the Core 2009

  • I think that once this gets some publicity and the 'trendsetters' start waling around with WP7s it'll be very popular!

    Neowin.net Andrew Fairbairn 2010

  • Vidya Prabhu & Rashmi Hemrajani check in with style gurus on the real 'trendsetters' of Bollywood ...

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • Vidya Prabhu & Rashmi Hemrajani check in with style gurus on the real 'trendsetters' of Bollywood ...

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

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