blowup
Example Sentences
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After a big blowup in the summer of 2024 that sent global stocks reeling, the currency-market carry trade has made a big comeback.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
It wasn’t so long ago that one thing took major stock indexes down overnight: the blowup of the Japanese yen “carry trade.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
And we’re so in it and doing it and then to have like this blowup argument over and over and again, take after take, angle after angle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
But by his measure, it’s “only” 1998, when the blowup of Long-Term Capital Management spooked the S&P 500, but the market still had a good distance left to run.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Children wearing what few clothes they had—which even that was only for our benefit, I knew, after Father’s blowup over the little dress-code problem.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
