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craze

[kreyz] / kreɪz /




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“San Francisco right now is having this moment around AI and the billboards. ... The overall craze around the industry has become a cultural moment.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Apple has largely sat on the sidelines of the AI spending craze while the rest of the “Magnificent Seven” tech giants continue to increase their capex levels.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Much of the craze has centered around the models' ability to sidestep structural constraints, including strict historic-preservation rules in many European cities that restrict exterior-wall modifications such as drilling for external AC units.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

“We have to maintain quality,” Lee said of the digital-horror craze.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

John Tookey showed off this new New York craze called break dancing but went spinning out of control into a group of girls, who toppled like skittles.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Thanks to social media and modern health crazes, hydration is no longer about just drinking water — and that has kicked off a corporate rush to develop and market more sophisticated drinks.

From MarketWatch Jul. 11, 2026

This may be the right moment to consider that even the most high-flying investment crazes generally end in tears.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

At its peak, Unity was a wildly popular game engine and the driving force behind viral crazes like Pokémon Go.

From Barron's Mar. 27, 2026

The company went public at the beginning of October and has positioned itself at the crossroads of two crazes: the build-out of more data centers to power artificial intelligence and a potential U.S. nuclear-power resurgence.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 4, 2025

The waves of recurring crime, the silly fads and crazes, the quicksilver changes in public taste, the hysteria and fears—all of these had long been mysteries to me.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

After 10 days of crazed moviegoing at the Cannes Film Festival, Times film critic Amy Nicholson and Times film editor Joshua Rothkopf are all but spent.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

“It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances!”

From Salon Jan. 30, 2026

These buyouts are absurd, an outgrowth of a crazed marketplace and undeniably screwy optics at a state university.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 4, 2025

It brought people who saw the hordes of crazed support as a money faucet—an opportunity to turn Tesla allegiance into a financial gold mine.

From Slate Sep. 26, 2025

Besa looked at her as if she were crazed.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

But the Bureau of Land Management still moved to protect them with new rules that would limit mining, development and cattle crazing — all of which represent lucrative revenue for industries and the states.

From Washington Post Nov. 14, 2015

As bad as we’ve played, people might think I’m crazing for saying we don’t believe we’re out of it.

From Washington Post Jul. 27, 2011

Too thick a finish will cause cooling, crazing and cracking.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was all crazing him, and his nails bit into his palms as he sat there, silent and heavy-breathed.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford

If the coefficient of expansion of these three layers differs, in other121 words, if the glaze does not fit, the result is crazing, that bugbear of the potter.

From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox




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