bouts

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There will be a nod to the 250th celebrations with historical "vignettes" between bouts, Axios reported, and there will also be military bands, a US military flyover and parachute display and a 10-minute fireworks finale.

From Barron's • Jun. 14, 2026

Other bouts of frenetic, rollercoaster volatility occurred during the Asian contagion of 1997, the dot-com crash of 2000-2001, the global financial crisis in 2008 and the pandemic in 2020.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Now, before that, I’d had two bad bouts of bronchitis, one after the next.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Verhoeven entered the sixth round for the first time in his fighting career - kickboxing bouts are capped at five rounds, and his only previous professional boxing fight ended inside two.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

The bouts of progress began to seem like no progress at all; the family braced for them just the same as for the setbacks.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen