The word "fads" is correct and usable in written English.
Generally, you can use it to refer to a short-lived trend or fashion. For example, "The '80s were marked by many different fads, such as neon clothing and arcade games."
Before the advent of the Wii Fit, Power Plate or personal trainer, came decades of fitness fads and dancefloor crazes.
The Artangel team has taken over a former Fads decorating shop, soon to be torn down, in a shabby, rundown square near Archway tube station in north London.
Whether there is resentment (only 15% of Republican voters thought 12 Years A Slave should have won last year) or the academy is swayed by fads (arguably this year, experimental film-making is the common thread), there is no doubt trends can be found when it comes to diversity and awards season.
We can discover who has better batting averages, not take it on faith; discover which methods of training promote accuracy, not just track the latest gurus and fads; and discover methods of distilling the wisdom of the crowd.The big surprise has been the support for the unabashedly elitist "super-forecaster" hypothesis.
Why has the frivolous hobby of the bourgeoisie suddenly become permissible to revolutionaries Cuba has gradually come to accept various Western fads that were previously outlawed for one reason or another.
Many consultancies are guilty of introducing so many fads simultaneously that managers have no chance of implementing them.The second grouse is that, even where fads lead to action, they often do more harm than good.
Books published within this new genre in the past year or so have included Ellen Shapiro's "Fad Surfing in the Boardroom" (Addison-Wesley) and Frederik Hilmer's and Lex Donaldson's "Management Redeemed: Debunking the Fads That Undermine Our Corporations" (Free Press).
Unlike lawyers and doctors, teachers need not keep up with fast-paced changes in their profession; they would do better to resist pedagogical fads.
Justice Kennedy's fishing expedition in European courts is "meaningless" yet "dangerous", since "this court...should not impose foreign moods, fads, or fashions on Americans".
WITH hindsight, some strange fads marked the dawning of this millennium.
Weather, commodity prices, soil health, water access, dietary fads and animal health are not the forte of the average pension-fund investment officer.
