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craze

[kreyz] / kreɪz /




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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

It sparked a craze where people flocked to places like parks, waterfronts and shopping malls in the hope of catching Pokémon.

From BBC Jul. 13, 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

It is a craze that has yet to abate.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

The company went public at the beginning of October and has positioned itself at the crossroads of two crazes: the build-out of more data centers to power artificial intelligence and a potential U.S. nuclear-power resurgence.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 4, 2025

The egg-shaped toy housing a virtual pet was one of the biggest crazes of the 1990s.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2024

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

Grace is very not fine—sick, confused, crazed with loneliness and not even sure who he is or what he’s supposed to be doing.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 18, 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

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

Just a few hours in that soddie made me see how folks could go crazed and run out into the freezing cold of the Nebraska prairie.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

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

No use; always the coward's "if" blocked him; and the coward's rage,—fiercest of all fury,—ravaged him, almost crazing him with his own impotence.

From The Flaming Jewel by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Rich fusible clays added to hard clays may stop the crazing, or the fusing point may be lowered by the addition of spar.

From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by Cox, George J.




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