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The numbers “look set to inevitably burst the bubble on Fed pivot bets” because they “suggest a re-acceleration in wage pressures,” said Tan Boon Heng of Mizuho Bank in a report.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2023

Both of those books—memoirs by players who pushed back against the game’s most sacred traditions—went to great lengths to burst the bubble of baseball’s purity.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2020

"It couldn't burst the bubble of London in the '50s."

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2018

Until, that is, Gavin Newsom took to the lectern and burst the bubble.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2017

Why is it that Christ's shameful death did not burst the bubble, as they thought it had done?

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander




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