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"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

If every losing bet counts as a bubble, then the market has always been one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Robert Martinez, a retired IT guy, stepped out of the Eagle Rock Rec Center polling place Tuesday afternoon and said he had just filled in a ballot bubble not for L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

“Yeah, trying to figure out how I can float around in this bubble forever.”

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Far below Antarctica's surface, immense volumes of ice are exceptionally clear, with relatively few bubbles or contaminants to interfere with the detection of faint flashes of light.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 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

Sometimes she even forgot that he wasn’t just somewhere else on the island, measuring the bubbles at the Hissing Stones or counting eggs in a kittiwake’s nest.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

It bubbled over shortly before the break, when Spencer Leniu was sin-binned for dissent by Australian referee Adam Gee.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Except the U.S. guarantees the right to a secret ballot, which means it’s pretty much impossible to tell what someone was thinking when they bubbled in their preferred candidates.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

Spain’s housing crisis had bubbled under the surface—with acute housing shortages causing prices to skyrocket—but it was the Maricarmen incident that sparked the unrest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Even worse smells wafted from the waterway that cradled the Yards’ southern edge, a festering stew of blood and guts that bubbled like a cauldron.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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

She reported it to the EA in July that year when she believed it was bubbling up rather than coming from boats.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

She can hear a fountain bubbling nearby and turns down the now grass-covered path to find it.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern