bust
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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
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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
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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
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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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