froth
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She added that this year’s outperformance for small-cap and microcap stocks “can be viewed as a sign of froth in the market.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Instead, Mahan’s candidacy was more like Pets.com, a famous e-commerce flop that came to embody the heedless froth of the dot.com bubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Memory stocks have posted large gains recently, leaving some analysts concerned about market froth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Chief among them was the huge speculative froth that had developed in the earlier part of the year when gold recorded an intraday peak of $5,626 near the end of January.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026
The chicken was tough, the tongue too salty, and the chocolate wouldn’t froth properly.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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Everyone has their method: Alton Brown swears by a dollop of mayonnaise; Martha Stewart sometimes froths hers in a cappuccino maker.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
You put chocolate powder in milk, and it froths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
"When you open a fizzy drink it froths, that's the CO2 coming out."
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025
In the video, a column of light gray smoke froths and bubbles into a bright blue sky — the initial fire in the port’s Hangar 12, where the ammonium nitrate was stored.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
He never foams or froths or bellows, or wildly gesticulates.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
I squeezed the trigger on the blender until the mixture frothed up the sides of the jar, threatening to spew out.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022
The host held out a glass; behind him flashed a grey pic of the Bronx estuary, waves frothed with yellow foam.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
The print editions of their former sister publications Entertainment Weekly and InStyle, which once frothed with profit, stopped publishing in February.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
Pour yourself some coffee, add some frothed milk, snuggle under your gravity blanket, and enjoy a movie on your 1080p resolution video projector.
From The Verge ● Nov. 30, 2020
He wept until the sea breeze would have no more of it and bucked the swells up, frothed them at the top, and sent some of the spray over the stern.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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The partial climbdown is not likely to result in an enormous bust-up – one of Angela Rayner's steadfast allies who pioneered the wider plans said they were a "little concerned" rather than frothing with rage.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Because I know from experience that some of you are frothing, foaming and itching to reach out and tell me that illegal means illegal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
What that means is we failed a lot in order to perfect it, to make the Barista the highest quality it can be, especially when it comes to frothing qualities for making lattes and cappuccinos.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2024
Suddenly, at the beach, there was life everywhere: fish frothing in the surf, fish flooding inlets.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2024
While looking at the brilliant frothing colors, cerise, orange, bright blue, red and yellow, she had a feeling that something was stealthily concealed behind those costumes.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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