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craze

[krayz] / kreɪz /




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Vic Sorbaro, David and Stephen’s father, was propelled by the car-buying craze of the 1950s to pivot from fixing bikes to fixing car tires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Driving this, she says, is a viral craze for bare-looking nails.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Muse craze has sent shares of Meta toward their best monthly run in over two years.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

It also demonstrates how the Labubu craze — in which people keep buying blind boxes of the same toys in hopes of getting a rare, expensive one — has turned some shops into casinos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Like most Americans, he had become caught up in the bicycle craze that was ignited by the advent of the “safety” bicycle, with its same-sized wheels and chain-and-sprocket drive.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Squishmallows, Labubus, Jelly Cats and other recent crazes have each leveraged a cute aesthetic to generate major revenue, according to reports.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

It also has to start winning over Gen Z in an era of fickle wellness trends and viral food crazes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Like many other internet-fueled food crazes, Cane’s enthusiasm often spills offline in surprisingly tangible ways.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

At its peak, Unity was a wildly popular game engine and the driving force behind viral crazes like Pokémon Go.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

The waves of recurring crime, the silly fads and crazes, the quicksilver changes in public taste, the hysteria and fears—all of these had long been mysteries to me.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

“During the playoffs, Dodger Stadium is a tough place to play because it’s 56,000 crazed fans yelling on every play,” said Stan Brooks, an award-winning film producer and longtime season-ticket holder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

He wasn’t a crazed football fan or a flighty 30-something bachelor, but an outdoorsman who loved mountain biking away from the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

“It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances!”

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

It brought people who saw the hordes of crazed support as a money faucet—an opportunity to turn Tesla allegiance into a financial gold mine.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

Everybody swarms for the ladders in a crazed rush to evade the police.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

But the Bureau of Land Management still moved to protect them with new rules that would limit mining, development and cattle crazing — all of which represent lucrative revenue for industries and the states.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2015

As bad as we’ve played, people might think I’m crazing for saying we don’t believe we’re out of it.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2011

Too thick a finish will cause cooling, crazing and cracking.

From Time Magazine Archive

The news he made a messmate tell: His Angelina bore it well, No sign gave she of crazing; But, steady as the Inchcape rock His Angelina stood the shock With fortitude amazing.

From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

That vision of the past  My head is ever crazing; Yet, when I saw her last,  I could not speak for gazing!

From Poems by George Pope Morris




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