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next big thing en · NOUN

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1. The most recent fad or trend.
   • Bioabsorbable coronary stents--are these the next big thing in coronary angioplasty? 2012, Issues in Patents and Intellectual Property, →ISBN:
   • Even without media hype, there have been and always will be next big things. 2015, Richard Faulk, The Next Big Thing: A History of the Boom-or-Bust Moments That Shaped the Modern World, →ISBN:
   • As soon as we think we're satisfied, the next version of the next big thing comes along and suddenly, we're supposed to be starving again—even though we've barely touched what we have. 2011, David Shapiro, Choosing the Right Thing to Do, →ISBN, page 126:
   • The media spends most of its time telling us about the next big thing, while overlooking the power and the size of niche markets. 2006, John Bradley Jackson, First, Best, Or Different: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know about Niche Marketing, →ISBN:
   • One politician present called the US land grab “inevitable”, adding: “AI is the next big thing, and no one is going to roll over and play dead and say, ‘You take over.’ China's not going to let that happen and certainly the US won't”. 2023 November 4, Madhumita Murgia, Anna Gross, Cristina Criddle, “Summit exposes tensions over AI development despite emollient Chinese tone”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see next, big, thing.

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