bust
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For others with China as part of their supply chain, investment has been a bust.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
The dot-com bust then began, eventually sending the index down nearly 78% from its peak.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
No, Sasaki wasn’t going to be a bust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Estimates for its losses when ISL, which negotiated World Cup rights deals, went bust in 2001 were anywhere between $30mn and $115mn.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
He pushed against that chicken wire so hard I was afraid he might bust right through it.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
She motioned to the Egyptian busts and said: "These heads, they talk to me."
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
These fraud busts will not make a material difference.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
He saw the gold standard as a useful curb on governments’ ability to foment booms and busts by printing money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Communities soon removed statues and busts of him and scrubbed his name from streets, parks and schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
This had been the villa of a very wealthy German and the busts must have cost him plenty.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
Newly appointed BBC chief Matt Brittin recently described the licence fee as a "busted flush"
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
“If you went to the hospital with a busted knee, they would fix it, and that would cost more than an IVF cycle.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Wildlife officers have busted an illegal cockroach-breeding operation in rural Australia, seizing a skin-crawling haul worth more than $100,000 on the black market for exotic bugs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
If Nyla decides to check under his bed, we’re busted.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Now, Burnham is marketing himself as the one who can reshape British politics and re-engineer the British state, partly by busting up the concentration of power in London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
With Hearts going for the title and Hibs busting a gut to derail them, there was a school of thought that this was the biggest Edinburgh derby of them all in the league.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
The Sweet 16 round of the tournament begins on Thursday night, and some of the top earners can be found still scoring baskets and busting brackets.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026
With all its starts and stops, twists and turns, reaches and lunges, pickleball is busting the Medicare bank, with a few hundred million dollars’ worth of injuries each year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026
Bobby Gene and Cory were busting a gut.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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