bust
Example Sentences
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Long before that, it had become clear that Sora was a bust.
From Los Angeles Times
She studies it daily, reading the texts of thinkers such as Seneca, Epictetus and other men better known as marble busts.
A few operations have been busted in India.
Deutsche Bank analyst Melissa Weathers wrote recently that investors were likely exercising more caution “given past memory bust cycles,” adding that those fears are “difficult to disprove in the near term.”
From MarketWatch
"After that, it was it was rugby or bust."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.