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craze

[kreyz] / kreɪz /




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It also demonstrates how the Labubu craze — in which people keep buying blind boxes of the same toys in hopes of getting a rare, expensive one — has turned some shops into casinos.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

The craze is reflected on social media, where fried chicken has had a renaissance.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

Wadadli’s jerk chicken, usually a summer craze, was doing numbers in March and April.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

The duo were pioneers of the aerobics craze that gripped the nation during that decade and helped create the National Aerobic Championship.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

He had been bitten with the craze for birds which bites all sensible people in the spring, and which sometimes even leads to excesses like birds’ nesting.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

It also has to start winning over Gen Z in an era of fickle wellness trends and viral food crazes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

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

From Slate Aug. 24, 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

Either way, reluctance to associate either Salinger or his most indelible creation with crazed murderers meant keeping their own wounds at arms’ length.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

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 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

He squinted at me through the tiny, crazed glasses.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

Much wondering in what fit of crazing care, Or desperate love, a wanderer came there.

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by William Knight

He is a hunted thing with terror crazing his blood and the sleuth-hounds of the wilds on his trail.

From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut




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