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craze

[krayz] / kreɪz /




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Dots are OpenAI’s answer to the current craze around AI agents designed to make users’ lives easier by handling tasks like scheduling trips or canceling subscriptions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Driving this, she says, is a viral craze for bare-looking nails.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

It also demonstrates how the Labubu craze — in which people keep buying blind boxes of the same toys in hopes of getting a rare, expensive one — has turned some shops into casinos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Wadadli’s jerk chicken, usually a summer craze, was doing numbers in March and April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Since coming down, landscape gardening had become his last craze but one.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

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

These technologies have the potential to generate speculative investment crazes that cost investors dearly, as we saw during the “meme stock” frenzy of 2021.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024

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

During the online show, Rhodes’ character Austin Drizzles, who performs the crackpot weekly weather report, would field calls from crazed viewers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 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

My biggest outlay has been for the skinny tires, which my wife, Tina, wears out like a crazed teenager.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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

The wind grew crazed again as the machine reared up, and she held on to her board tightly, waving until the aircraft disappeared into the dark sky.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

I will not suffer him to wander through my land crazing the people with his tales of dreams and visions.

From The Ghost Kings by Henry Rider Haggard

While unsuspended wheels the village dance, The maidens eye him with enquiring glance, Much wondering by what fit of crazing care, Or desperate love, bewildered, he came there.

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by William Knight




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