bust
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Appeared in the December 4, 2025, print edition as 'Who’s to Blame for the Great EV Bust of 2025?'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
His 80,000-word account of the experience was found in an online auction won by amateur social-historian David Wilkins, who has now published it under the title Blighty or Bust.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2024
But Jet City was only emerging from the Boeing Bust of 1969-71.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023
You’ll see new acquisitions, not least by women of the 17th and 18th centuries, and freshly cleaned favorites, above all Rembrandt’s “Aristotle With a Bust of Homer,” gleaming through melancholy.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2023
In the last inning of the fifth game, Mabel shook Shirley like a bottle of catsup, shouting, “Do it again. Bust this one outta the park, Cookie!”
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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