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bubble

[buhb-uhl] / ˈbʌb əl /




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Some economists have looked back to the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s as a yardstick to measure the possible costs to the global economy of an AI blowup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

"Wellington's a bit of a bubble," another voter says, expressing a caveat I heard often, before describing feeling disillusioned.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

He also doesn’t need to be wrapped in bubble wrap, but ideally he’d ramp up for the anchor leg instead of sprinting for the full marathon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

They decided artificial intelligence is a bubble before anything had fallen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Tiptoeing back to my bedside, I picked up Duuzuu’s single bubble.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

Do you know anyone with a good record of predicting bubbles?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Nagarajan, with colleagues and a PhD student, have put together a machine with a reactor that uses bubbles to get rid of the algae.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Born from Wolf’s real frustrations in a long-term relationship, the melodramatic hit bubbles with acoustic guitar and low, vocal flip-laced mourning to amplified crescendos, replete with punchy garage-rock drumming and Wolf’s howling chorus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

"Who are we allowing to feed into us and manipulate what media we consume, which bubbles we're in?" she continued.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

For a moment, I stood there, looking out at the marsh and listening to all of her sounds: insects buzzing, crickets singing, bubbles popping on the surface.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

After simmering below the surface for years, anger at unaffordable housing in Spain has bubbled over and precipitated a general election that will be dominated by the crisis.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Their enthusiasm bubbled forth as the news conference proceeded, as their sense of whether the Padres might finally win a World Series got more and more optimistic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

The source of the stench was the canal itself, a stretch of sewage, chemicals and other unmentionables in “green water that hissed and bubbled like a witch’s cauldron.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Sometimes called “massives,” these embryonic raves bubbled underground, often in former industrial districts with available, frequently forgotten spaces.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

While the rice bubbled in the pot, we continued to wait for him.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince

Frustration is bubbling over in Indonesia and Malaysia -- especially in regions bordering Singapore that are seen as a prime location for new tech facilities.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

So it’s not exactly damning of something violent bubbling right below the surface.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

That sense of pent-up anger is now bubbling over onto the streets.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Worries about uncertain returns on big AI investments are bubbling up again, especially for the heavily-indebted AI cloud-computing company CoreWeave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Don’t worry,” she said, stirring a bubbling pot of grits on the stove.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce


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