bust
Example Sentences
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We don't want this boom and bust, it doesn't make life easy for either of us.
From BBC
If the AI boom turns to bust, that could spell trouble for the economy.
China’s real-estate boom had turned to a bust, weighing on the economy and putting a damper on consumer spending.
In a global bust cycle where supply is too abundant and international prices are weak, supply will need to be cut somewhere.
From Barron's
But four years later, on a chance visit to the bank in 2022, she says she was told McClure had gone bust.
From BBC
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