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bust

[buhst] / bʌst /
NOUN
chest of human
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NOUN
arrest for illegal action
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STRONG
letting go release
WEAK


VERB
physically break
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MP Materials, a volatile small-cap since its 2020 special-purpose acquisition company debut, has swung between boom and bust for rare-earth investors but has never teetered on the edge of failure.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

No, Sasaki wasn’t going to be a bust.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

The dot-com bust then began, eventually sending the index down nearly 78% from its peak.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Some state officials are betting that shelling out on new programs now can help bolster the economy before the next bust.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

And if Dino-land turns out to be a bust, guess who owns thirteen thousand acres of nothing?

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Kreitzman also has a curator - Jaime Freestone , external- who often stays over and keeps displays like the one with a multitude of ancient Egyptian busts and doll heads in order.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

These fraud busts will not make a material difference.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 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

This spring selling season is now looking like a repeat of the past three that were largely busts.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

Miss Baker’s and Miss Inglis’s ghosts haunted the school, along with actual busts and portraits.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Newly appointed BBC chief Matt Brittin recently described the licence fee as a "busted flush"

From BBC Jul. 14, 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 you went to the hospital with a busted knee, they would fix it, and that would cost more than an IVF cycle.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

All we found was a little damp flour in the bottom of a busted can.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Instead, it’s happening in a climate-controlled studio in Los Angeles, where a Swedish football icon skilled in third person self-regard is tangling—or, perhaps, simply busting chops—with a polarizing American soccer loudmouth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 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

He said: "This action formed part of global efforts to crack down on sanctions busting."

From BBC Jan. 7, 2026

With all its starts and stops, twists and turns, reaches and lunges, pickleball is busting the Medicare bank, with a few hundred million dollars’ worth of injuries each year.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2026

When morning comes, I’m up with the sun, busting around the kitchen like an itch you can’t scratch.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick




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