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froth

[frawth, froth] / frɔθ, frɒθ /


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Having cautioned last year about the prospect of froth in AI, Dalio has turned up the volume this year and begun to speak of the set-up as a bubble at risk of popping.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

More than one flopped backward in a cartoonish froth of sparks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

Two Fitzmaurice women—Ben’s wife, Serena, and his sister, Fliss—are the chief victims, and the depiction of their inner lives adds substance to the book’s satirical froth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Located where the cold, clear Spokane River tumbled in a white froth over a series of low falls, the town was surrounded by ponderosa pine forest and open range country.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

It also froths milk and makes cold foam, which opens up even more possibilities for a build-your-own drink bar.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

You put chocolate powder in milk, and it froths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 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

The Launch Out moves forward at two knots and the water froths like beer around its rusted hull.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2017

If he is refused anything, he falls on the floor in a fit and froths at the mouth until he gets what he wants.

From Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 by Ruth Pierce

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

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

“If ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats,” Melville mused, “then the eternal whale will still survive, and … spout his frothed defiance to the skies.”

From New York Times ● May 2, 2020

It tasted like a sausage made from frothed soil and grass.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Patient travelers are rewarded with some of the most dramatic scenery anywhere in Iceland, all frothing waterfalls and muscular peaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

George says both players are "frothing" at the prospect of facing South Africa.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024

He was frothing at the mouth, the foamy spittle soaking his beard.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini


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