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frenzy

[fren-zee] / ˈfrɛn zi /


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AI frenzy drives Chinese tech valuations to multiples of U.S. peers.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

The White House didn’t plan to disclose the feint, officials said, until the Washington Post revealed it and sparked a media frenzy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

A global frenzy around artificial intelligence has driven wild swings in the value of the country's biggest chipmakers.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Venture investors played a part in creating the current poaching and acquihire frenzy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Her cries echoed off the walls, sending Shed into a frenzy and disorienting the bats.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

Known as an “urchin” bait, the lure is dominating professional competitions, sparking a rush of imitators and provoking shelf-clearing buying frenzies.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

The recent rally in silver is notable, with the white metal exhibiting significant volatility as it has attracted a wave of retail investors in a repeat of previous frenzies over the metal.

From Barron's Jan. 2, 2026

Even our recent market volatility — from meme stock frenzies to cryptocurrency bubbles — reflects the same pattern.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2025

The government might not have been in power during Trump's last term, but in Westminster, and in the City, there's a universal memory of his late-night social media posts causing frenzies.

From BBC Jan. 18, 2025

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

From "1984" by George Orwell

But in the meantime, many feel strengthening oversight overall is vital if development continues at its same, frenzied pace.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Leveraged ETFs and their siblings, inverse funds, are risky, and their frenzied proliferation that kicked into overdrive 2025 may be overshadowing their big jump in closures this year.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

It is a frenzied, organized dance with missed steps and dropped plates and canned tuna and mayonnaise gussied up into a fancy tonnato sauce that tastes upscale and flawless to the unsuspecting.

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

SK hynix, a key supplier to the world's most valuable company Nvidia, has seen profits soar due to frenzied global demand for the hardware that powers AI tools.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

And therefore when those same frenzied Virginians who were writing Madison about the fatal curse of assumption also wrote him, he was even less supportive, though characteristically elusive.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Loya: —and then they’re just frenzying around their house.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2019

He watched their splashing, their excitement, and their frenzying limbs with the awareness that this tousling around had no higher significance.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills

Still we must doubt the competency of the alleged authors of the excitement to perform the bewildering and frenzying acts ascribed to them.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam




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