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mania

[may-nee-uh, mayn-yuh] / ˈmeɪ ni ə, ˈmeɪn jə /


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This was before PCA mania had erupted, before any MVP talk had surfaced, before anyone could have predicted the breakthrough season he would deliver in 2026.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Fanatics itself is a testament to that sports mania.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

As the Labubu mania cools, some of its rivals have become more popular.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Some people trace the stock-market mania story back to the railroad boom in the 1800s, the South Sea Bubble in the 1700s or the Dutch mania for tulip bulbs in the 1600s.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The lithium experiment was in the hands of a graduate student named Milton White, who now got his first exposure to Ernest Lawrence in the throes of a mania.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Wall Street manias and crashes, sadly, are about as variable as a Scooby-Doo episode.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Investment manias don’t end the way they used to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

It’s hard to value the potential growth of such businesses, which is why speculative meme-stock manias can take hold so easily.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

Berg, a Swiss writer and social activist, sprays her fury across the whole landscape of technological and economic manias that are rendering the 21st century intolerable.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022

Used to his manias, Aureliano paid no attention to him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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