hiccup
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The artificial-intelligence boom could see a hiccup, along with the torrent of capital spending that has kept deals flowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
This isn’t its first hiccup in recent months.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
"If we do have a hiccup here and there that is also good to learn from."
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
His only other hiccup came in the third inning, when he hit Jason Matthews with a stray breaking ball on a full count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
The sound was big, and sharp enough to make me feel like my brain was gonna pop in my head, enough to make my heart hiccup.
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
That means the company can little afford continued hiccups with Starship, the successor to SpaceX’s tried and tested Falcon 9 rockets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
But I promise to be vulnerable with you about the hiccups, to celebrate the wins — and to always translate financial jargon into tips we can actually use.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
The primary goals of this 13th test launch were to once again demonstrate those redesigns in flight, this time without any hiccups.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Three years after its planned 2023 opening date, the newly dubbed SkyLink system remains mired in technical hiccups and legal disputes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Every couple of days he’ll startle the directress with some unanswerable query: “Why do we get hiccups, Frau Elena?”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were hiccuped and hiccupped.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
One man, the late Charles Osborne of Iowa, reportedly hiccuped for 68 years straight.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
Even as Europe, particularly Greece, has struggled, the U.S. market has barely hiccuped.
From US News ● Nov. 6, 2015
But when Wilder's routine hiccuped regularly in the 1960s, he lost that explosive snap in his barbed approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2015
Then, reaching the top of a hill, it hiccuped forward, and I gripped my seat and prayed.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
The 15-time major winner, 50, can be seen co-operating with authorities and then hiccuping while he is being driven away in the back of the police car.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
The hiccuping ultimately "escalated to…a good deal of hiccup-induced puking," he said.
From Fox News ● Dec. 11, 2021
In the many recent presidential live streams, Bolsonaro’s hiccuping is evident, and he has prefaced some appearances by acknowledging his hiccupping and disrupted speech.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
Others, though, would work on exams with hiccuping computers, at uncomfortable tables with other children or adults making noise nearby.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2021
I would speak, or try to speak, Spanish, and I would manage to utter halting, hiccuping sounds that betrayed my unease.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were hiccuped and hiccupped.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
"The smallest things upset me. The other day I jumped when a woman in the street hiccupped as she walked past me."
From Fox News ● Dec. 5, 2019
He hiccupped in late April, allowing three runs in two innings, but the Nationals had seen what they needed to.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2019
Celeste hiccupped or burped and it turned into a small retch, but nothing came up.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
The engine hiccupped and sputtered out, and all we heard was the wind.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
Or a friend might send me another sweet video of her newborn hiccupping.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021
“I still write too many of her patented hiccupping, chicken-bone sentences,” said the L.A.-based writer and founder of Boyle Heights’ Libros Schmibros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
His hiccupping went on for hours, and finally ended late that afternoon when their car broke down on the way to their honeymoon destination.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2021
Lincoln was hiccupping a lot in the third trimester.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2021
The rain begins again, tapping against the window like an intruder or a warning, and finally, at the very peak of the room’s growing hum, a child begins hiccupping.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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