bursting
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Wars, the bursting of the dot-com bubble and tax cuts sent budgets off course in the early 2000s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
More recently, the S&P 500 suffered through a lost decade during the 2000s, hurt by the one-two punch of the dot-com bubble bursting, and, later, the 2008 financial crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Each half of the film reflects the character it follows, the first part frenetic, densely packed and bursting with music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The first is that the bursting of giant bubbles has often been catastrophic for the economy—think of 1929 or 2008.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The thick, greasy smoke from the blubber stove turned his face black and regularly sent him bursting outside coughing and choking, but he remained cheerful.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
