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bubble

[buhb-uhl] / ˈbʌb əl /




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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

It is far higher than it was even during the giddy, insane days at the peak of the great dot-com bubble a quarter-century ago.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

I stared at that stack and felt a new fury bubble in my veins.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

A sand shark passed over Mom’s head, swimming through the bubbles rising from her regulator.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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 legal saga is a twist on the return-to-office tensions that have bubbled up at companies in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

The thick water bubbled and swirled, and the large head of the swamp monster slurped out of the bluish-green.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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

KPot offers an all-you-can-eat experience at tables outfitted with small barbecue grills and metal pots of bubbling broths of varying flavors and spice levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Tonight Celia would have the potatoes bubbling in the pot and we’d go to bed with our stomachs filled.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff


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