But I see a real trend developing where we're getting beat in a lot of phases.

A. Last year, there was a real trend toward very short, four-day vacations.

That is the real trend in gambling, not human slingshots.

He said a real trend now was to buy an older home and knock it down just to get the land.

Traders and analysts said there was no real trend to yesterday's action.

Certain trends, real or imagined, sometimes emerge in concert programming.

"We started to see just a real trend to organic as a lifestyle," she explained.

"An average of the two levels, at 267,000 units, is probably closer to the real trend."

Instead, the stories are rooted in real trends or incidents.

When problems can be attributed to some trend - real or imagined - that is even better.