bust
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Still, while VC firms undoubtedly get the chance to invest in high-growth companies at lower valuations than stock-market investors do, they also do so at an earlier stage where many go bust.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026
The BIS noted that AI investment faces bottlenecks in energy and semiconductors, and a bust could destabilize the financial system.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026
But such events are also drawing the working and middle classes, who bust open savings and borrow money to afford spiraling prices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026
This is not to denigrate players who have bust a gut for their country; it's an attempt to explain the real world they live in.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026
And if Dino-land turns out to be a bust, guess who owns thirteen thousand acres of nothing?
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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