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Data-center construction may not have to collapse in a full-blown AI bust to frustrate the plans of companies hoping for a long boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

In the last quarter of 2025, work stopped on more than 5,000 homes at some 50 development sites, often because the building contractor went bust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

It’s not Tarik Skubal or bust, but the Dodgers should trade for someone they would start in a playoff game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Each attempt went bust when global economic downturns cratered the semiconductor market and sent chip prices plummeting.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

“If he cain’t think of anything else, he’ll say, ‘Git yore foot away from thet aigg basket fore you bust them aiggs.’”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

She motioned to the Egyptian busts and said: "These heads, they talk to me."

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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

IDC analysts say that the memory market can break from its historical tendency to see dramatic booms and busts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

Some investors are worried that the memory market has undergone dramatic booms and busts, suggesting that the current good times won’t last.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

Cillian busts in the back door, goes into the prayer room which we never use, and starts pulling boards up from the floor.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

Newly appointed BBC chief Matt Brittin recently described the licence fee as a "busted flush"

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Pei’s firm—show dystopian scenes: busted windows, tossed rooms and graffitied walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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

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

‘Aoow! You skeeted the water right in my ear. It’s busted my eardrum. I can’t even hear.’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Instead, it’s happening in a climate-controlled studio in Los Angeles, where a Swedish football icon skilled in third person self-regard is tangling—or, perhaps, simply busting chops—with a polarizing American soccer loudmouth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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

Globally tankers were facing "a resurgence in piracy and other attacks", while a newer phenomenon of so-called "dark fleets - vessels engaged in sanction busting activities" brought further problems.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 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

We collide with the chain-link fence, but rather than busting through it, it holds...and then I realize it’s slowly bending forward.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman