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craze

[kreyz] / kreɪz /




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Forces driving the latest fro-yo craze include gut health—and social-media-induced FOMO.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Much of the craze has centered around the models' ability to sidestep structural constraints, including strict historic-preservation rules in many European cities that restrict exterior-wall modifications such as drilling for external AC units.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

“We have to maintain quality,” Lee said of the digital-horror craze.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

But olive brine has been quietly seasoning dishes long before social media discovered martinis, and it will continue doing so long after the next cocktail craze arrives.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

By this time the craze for Internet stocks was completely out of control and had infected the Stanford University medical community.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

You could say that frozen-yogurt trends come in crazes, not phases.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Thanks to social media and modern health crazes, hydration is no longer about just drinking water — and that has kicked off a corporate rush to develop and market more sophisticated drinks.

From MarketWatch Jul. 11, 2026

At its peak, Unity was a wildly popular game engine and the driving force behind viral crazes like Pokémon Go.

From Barron's Mar. 27, 2026

There have been plenty of food and drink crazes over the years - matcha, bubble tea, cronuts, and the Starbucks olive oil coffee that we're still disappointed didn't really catch on.

From BBC Dec. 26, 2025

The waves of recurring crime, the silly fads and crazes, the quicksilver changes in public taste, the hysteria and fears—all of these had long been mysteries to me.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

“It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances!”

From Salon Jan. 30, 2026

My biggest outlay has been for the skinny tires, which my wife, Tina, wears out like a crazed teenager.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

It brought people who saw the hordes of crazed support as a money faucet—an opportunity to turn Tesla allegiance into a financial gold mine.

From Slate Sep. 26, 2025

The sketch appeared to be a parody of a scene in Spider Man where Norman Osborne, played by Willem Dafoe, is being taunted by his crazed alter ego, the Green Goblin.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2025

The girl springs out of Oscar’s lap like a crazed cat.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

But the Bureau of Land Management still moved to protect them with new rules that would limit mining, development and cattle crazing — all of which represent lucrative revenue for industries and the states.

From Washington Post Nov. 14, 2015

As bad as we’ve played, people might think I’m crazing for saying we don’t believe we’re out of it.

From Washington Post Jul. 27, 2011

Too thick a finish will cause cooling, crazing and cracking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Very dear to Pancha was the memory of this picture—until, in the same setting, came another picture, ghastly, terrible, that made the place more horrible to her than the crazing horror of a dream.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various

But how can I believe she does when I see that it is breaking her poor heart, and crazing her brain, and killing her?

From Her Mother's Secret by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte




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