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craze

[krayz] / kreɪz /




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The startup Pickle on Thursday joined the agent craze with a “personal AI you raise,” a concept popularized by Tamagotchis in the 1990s.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

In the wake of the “Obsession” craze, however, Navarrette has reveled in seeing Latinos embrace her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The internet’s peptide craze is built around injections of questionable provenance and uncertain science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The people of Somerset aren't the only ones to jump on the mangelwurzel craze.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Since coming down, landscape gardening had become his last craze but one.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Like many other internet-fueled food crazes, Cane’s enthusiasm often spills offline in surprisingly tangible ways.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

This may be the right moment to consider that even the most high-flying investment crazes generally end in tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

Did someone repaint the mechanical horses for children one too many times and now their eyes look crazed?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

He wasn’t a crazed football fan or a flighty 30-something bachelor, but an outdoorsman who loved mountain biking away from the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

“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

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

I knew I probably looked like a crazed maniac, but I kept smiling.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

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 Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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


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