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blowup

[bloh-uhp] / ˈbloʊˌʌp /
NOUN
explosion
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NOUN
an angry outburst
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One lending blowup is showing how America’s banks helped fuel the private-credit boom, and what could happen in its unraveling.

From The Wall Street Journal

I had always helped Ma some with housework and chores, but ever since the blowup last week, I’d been condemned to full-time home training.

From Literature

Market Financial Solutions is the latest worrying blowup.

From The Wall Street Journal

But by his measure, it’s “only” 1998, when the blowup of Long-Term Capital Management spooked the S&P 500, but the market still had a good distance left to run.

From Barron's

That may have reached its limits with the blowup over Powell.

From The Wall Street Journal