bust

Example Sentences

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So, tech companies are being forced to pick up more of the tab, signing deals that make them pay up even if AI proves to be a bust.

From Barron's

My insides got all knotted up and I felt like I was going to bust wide open.

From Literature

History is littered with new technologies that led to stock-market booms and busts.

From The Wall Street Journal

Over the next five days, the Americans flipped their Winter Games from a potential bust into its best-ever showing.

From The Wall Street Journal

The memory-chip market is famously prone to boom and bust cycles, so much so that memory makers are moving only cautiously to add capacity in the current shortage.

From The Wall Street Journal