bubble
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈbʌbəl/
- Literature
:
burbuja
- For today's leaders, that issue is how to deflate the world's bubble economy before it bursts.
- asset bubble
- housing bubble
- real estate bubble
How do you know the bubble is about to burst?
- How do you know the bubble is about to burst?
- So housing, I'm hearing housing bubble bursting probably.
- But I don't think the AI bubble is yet ready to burst.
- But some people did warn that the financial bubble was threatening to burst.
- And you sit back and say that sure feels like a bubble is going to burst soon.
- He said the greatest bubble burst ever is coming.
- I mean, people, it's, it's been a giant bubble again, part of the Fed.
Examples
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Last time we had a housing bubble was in the late '80s.
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But now these Chinese-induced commodity bubbles, initiated by a country with enormous industrial overcapacity, may not be sustainable.
Academic text (2010) -
I have never seen a financial bubble like this.
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We bought it during the bubble.
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How do you know the bubble is about to burst?
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The difference is that we don't have a bubble in the single family market.
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Cryptocurrency's a bubble, everybody knows that.
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The challenge for our generation is to deflate the economic bubble before it bursts.
Academic text (2003) -
The downsizings and mass firings after the dot-com bubble deflated left many engineers feeling vulnerable.
Academic text (2004) -
The housing market experienced a significant bubble that eventually led to many foreclosures.
Synonyms
12
5.1
A plan or organization that seems strong but is actually weak and likely to fail
Growing quickly in a way that will end suddenly
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
7
1.7
A soft plastic sheet with many small air bubbles that stops fragile things from breaking when you pack them
1
7.3
A British dish made by frying leftover cabbage and potatoes, often served with eggs or bacon
- Archaic
1
7.8
A tank of very hot liquid where tiny bubbles show the paths of invisible particles
- US
1
3.0
A clear plastic cover with small bubbles that holds a product on a piece of cardboard
- Specialized
A skin rash around the lips after chewing bubble gum with artificial colors or flavors
- Archaic
A printer that uses heat to make tiny ink bubbles and prints them on paper
- Archaic
A device that stores information as tiny magnetic areas on a thin layer, used in older computers
- Literature
A group of politicians and journalists cut off from ordinary people and their problems
How Inflated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bubble uses the image of a soap bubble that grows and then suddenly pops, so an economic bubble is when prices rise too fast and then quickly fall or 'burst'.