bust
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Several Poundland suppliers have said they would also go bust if the retailer collapses.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The first to have caved might bust out her new readers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
That led eventually to a bust and a stock-market crash in those railroad stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
As for the economy, the AI bust wiped out 500,000 lost jobs in nonresidential construction owing to the bust of AI infrastructure, and Asian supply chains were it hard.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Suesetta and I look at each other and bust out laughing.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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"Egypt and Rome, the Faces of Fayum", opening Wednesday at Rome's Ara Pacis museum, also includes mummies, masks, shrouds, jewellery, marble busts and statuary.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
History shows they can start turning into busts the moment the window to raise new capital closes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
"My work also busts the myth that Byfield always did what he was told and never complained. He was very strong-willed but also suffered a great deal of hardship and psychological strain."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Most of those coverage busts came from USC’s backups at the position, but it does beg questions about the depth in the Trojans’ defensive backfield.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Uffizi staff rushed to move busts and sculptures before they were trampled.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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They repair broken pitchers, taking in wayward arms with busted mechanics and diminishing fastballs and resurrecting their careers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Retrieving busted bots on stretchers, one of the Humanoid Games’ best visual gags, may actually have originated with her league.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
The 99-yard return looked like it might turn the tide for the Trojans, until, on the next drive, Rutgers busted a 49-yard run into the red zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
He has even busted Bhangra moves with Jimmy Fallon, external, with the US talk show host labelling him "the biggest Punjabi artist on the planet".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Then in his own voice, he said, “Good answer, mirror. I’d have busted your shiny butt if you had said anything else.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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In 1686, at least one now contested-account recounts the story of Sir John Knight, a devout anti-Catholic, busting into the church of St. Michael in Bristol, England, during services with a gun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Should a player who transfers and has superior talent immediately get to start over a player who has been in the program for three years busting his butt?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Arzani appeared in acres of space on the left, Colby Donovan having over-committed to attack and now busting a gut in a forlorn attempt to recover.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Instead, it’s happening in a climate-controlled studio in Los Angeles, where a Swedish football icon skilled in third person self-regard is tangling—or, perhaps, simply busting chops—with a polarizing American soccer loudmouth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
This would drive my father into a fury; eventually he would come busting dramatically into my room and order me out, his forefinger trembling, rolling his eyes like Othello.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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