fizzle
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"When that happens, triplets easily fizzle out before they ever meet. Molecules must be close enough for energy to transfer but separated enough to prevent quenching of excitons."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
When the relationships fizzle, when the job sucks, when things don’t work out the way you plan, you know they’re always there for you.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Despite years of work, there is no word on whether a viable vaccine is any closer to reality, causing the gains to fizzle some.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Those of us without the inside scoop can just hope that the latest rally doesn’t fizzle: Stock futures point to a mixed open as U.S. inflation data looms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
But around here, we’d all sense we were near territory we didn’t want to enter, and the arguments would fizzle out.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
If the AI boom fizzles or the energy consumption of data centers wanes, they worry residents could be left paying off the infrastructure upgrades years from now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Those sailors who remain are trying to stay sane as their cell service fizzles in and out, compromising attempts to reach their family, employers and governments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
A star quarterback fizzles, a new hire doesn’t work out—and so it’s back to the basics.
From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025
Such instincts to keep young people away from the criminal justice system are deep-rooted in policing - perhaps in the hope antisocial behaviour fizzles out.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
In fact, within the thermonuclear research community, Livermore’s reputation was marred by the almost comic fizzles of the first devices it readied for testing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
But the American dream of winning the tournament for the first time fizzled out in shambolic fashion in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a hugely disappointing defeat by Belgium.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
What started off as a trailblazing music partnership between música mexicana band Fuerza Regida and L.A. label Rancho Humilde has now fizzled into a sticky online drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
That fizzled in the midst of a standoff between then-U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
However, as negotiations between the U.S. and Iran fizzled, they rose again.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
By this time, Nino Carlitos’s egg-buying business has fizzled.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
On the stunning ballad Good Reason, she struggles with the idea of a relationship fizzling out, with no major disagreements, just the gut feeling it's not working.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
His relationship with Peter Schlesinger - the young Californian subject of many of Hockney's paintings - was fizzling out.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Hopes for a deal run high before fizzling, so markets have been reluctant to discount longer-lasting disruptions, Morgan Stanley analysts said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
That’s the funky mood in Boston, where the Red Sox are once again sideways and fizzling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
Sometimes Journey comes out of the tests with smoke fizzling from her body.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
