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[fiz] / fɪz /


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Champagne winegrowers said Thursday they were dropping a 23-year-old study into expanding the area that can produce France's most famous fizz due to climate change, declining consumption and economic uncertainty.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Soda syrup and carbonated water were kept just above freezing to trap more carbon dioxide and increase the fizz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Carpenter closed, as she always does, with “Espresso,” and if you’d assumed that by now this breezy electro-pop bop would inevitably have lost some of its fizz, think again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025

“As they melt, these Candies gently fizz on your tongue,” per TJ’s.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025

William pulled a beaker out of the clamp and held it up to the light, watching the soft fizz of the chemicals inside.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

Yann Martel’s novel contains deep tragedy while its tone fizzes with life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

This does not mean the trapped water glows or fizzes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025

Conor Hourihane and his cultured left-foot provide the opening with a lovely ball into the box, but Dwight Gayle can't get his angles right and it fizzes past the far post.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024

Not everything purrs or fizzes quite as one would like.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023

So we each get A fistful of sparklers, Firecrackers, A paper log cabin That smokes and fizzes, Rockets that shower sparks About the height Of the clothesline.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

The edgy appeal of “Erupcja” is in the way it maps humans as molecules and electrons, fizzed by location, inspired by connection, driven to hover, fuse and release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Garnacho's run and cross teed up Palmer for a low strike that fizzed just wide from 10 yards.

From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025

Moussa Diaby's thunderbolt shot from the edge of the area, after a cross was half-cleared by Tommy Doyle, fizzed through a couple of Wolves defenders and goalkeeper Jose Sa to open the scoring.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2024

Ex-West Ham captain Rice later fizzed an effort over the bar, before Hammers goalkeeper Alphonse Areola denied Leandro Trossard and Martin Odegaard.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2023

The druggist, being one Walter Gripp, was astoundingly polite and fizzed one right up for him!

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

This version is easily the equal of the original: fizzing with humor, and infused with a tenderness and melancholy sympathy for all its characters, mostly members of a family from the so-called 1%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

The minds of these young people are alive and fizzing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Declan Rice had four opportunities, including a first-half shot he sent fizzing just wide and an injury-time effort that forced Sa into a decent save.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2024

Regardless of whatever else people like or dislike about it, just the sort of fizzing energy beneath the skin of everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

My blood is fizzing, pounding so hard in my veins I feel lightheaded.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy


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