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For others with China as part of their supply chain, investment has been a bust.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Estimates for its losses when ISL, which negotiated World Cup rights deals, went bust in 2001 were anywhere between $30mn and $115mn.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

Also read: The bond market hasn’t been this calm since the dot-com bust and the financial crisis.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Data-center construction may not have to collapse in a full-blown AI bust to frustrate the plans of companies hoping for a long boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The bandages made his hands itch and somebody had to watch him all the time else he would bust the blisters.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

There had been booms and busts for Hostess before, including two trips to bankruptcy court.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Facing the threat of fresh tariffs, Vietnamese authorities pledged to increase IP violation busts by at least 20% in May compared to the same period last year.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Communities soon removed statues and busts of him and scrubbed his name from streets, parks and schools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Some investors are worried that the memory market has undergone dramatic booms and busts, suggesting that the current good times won’t last.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

Evidence of the house’s once-grand days was stacked everywhere: magnificent rugs, original paintings, statues, busts of gloomy Horsepools and Worthinghams, antique furniture and a real horse dipped in bronze that Tendai avoided touching.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

The BBC's new director general has described the traditional TV licence model as "a busted flush" and "no longer fit for purpose".

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

“There are hundreds of busted, dangerous sidewalks in South L A that have gone unrepaired for years,” he wrote to his network of followers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

If he’s still standing at the end, even if Creed has busted his head open, “I’m gonna know for the first time in my life that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The first time Ms. Washington got all theatrical like this back in September, pretty much everyone busted out laughing.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

Higher prices for building materials are boosting construction costs and busting renovation budgets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

With Hearts going for the title and Hibs busting a gut to derail them, there was a school of thought that this was the biggest Edinburgh derby of them all in the league.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

The Sweet 16 round of the tournament begins on Thursday night, and some of the top earners can be found still scoring baskets and busting brackets.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026

In another, a TCU running back was busting his way through tackles on third and long, rumbling his way into the end zone, deflating any delusions of grandeur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025

Tuesday after New Year’s and I’m busting into school thinking about the game we were going to have that afternoon against St. Peter’s.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers