fizzle

Example Sentences

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A star quarterback fizzles, a new hire doesn’t work out—and so it’s back to the basics.

From Barron's

Such support, combined with a weak dollar and a potential Federal Reserve rate cut, means the global economy might stay on its feet in 2026, provided the AI boom doesn’t fizzle.

From The Wall Street Journal

A much-touted nuclear renaissance in the early 2000s fizzled when electricity demand flattened and the shale boom delivered abundant, cheap natural gas.

From The Wall Street Journal

I see the light of one of Ama’s Adinkra symbols, but it quickly fizzles out when she trips on one of the vines.

From Literature

Slowly the bits of anger that were still floating around inside me fizzle out like flat soda.

From Literature