fizzle

Example Sentences

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When the relationships fizzle, when the job sucks, when things don’t work out the way you plan, you know they’re always there for you.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

Joachim Klement and Francisca Reis, strategists at Panmure Liberum, the U.K.’s biggest independent investment bank, have laid out three ways the AI trade may fizzle and the impact those scenarios could have on stocks.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

Despite years of work, there is no word on whether a viable vaccine is any closer to reality, causing the gains to fizzle some.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

The e-commerce platform called the offer “neither credible nor attractive” after a rollout by GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen appeared to fizzle.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

After the Soviet Union’s first reported H-bomb test in August 1953—a relative fizzle known to US intelligence as “Joe-4”—“Ernest said, I think to DuBridge, ‘Well, it’s sure lucky that some people’s advice wasn’t taken.’

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik