froth
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She added that this year’s outperformance for small-cap and microcap stocks “can be viewed as a sign of froth in the market.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Instead, Mahan’s candidacy was more like Pets.com, a famous e-commerce flop that came to embody the heedless froth of the dot.com bubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Chief among them was the huge speculative froth that had developed in the earlier part of the year when gold recorded an intraday peak of $5,626 near the end of January.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026
Times of froth tend to see companies linked to the theme du jour—internet, 3-D printing, electric vehicles, crypto, AI, etc.—lead the charts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
Tail fins whipped the water into pink froth.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
Everyone has their method: Alton Brown swears by a dollop of mayonnaise; Martha Stewart sometimes froths hers in a cappuccino maker.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
"When you open a fizzy drink it froths, that's the CO2 coming out."
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025
In the video, a column of light gray smoke froths and bubbles into a bright blue sky — the initial fire in the port’s Hangar 12, where the ammonium nitrate was stored.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
It’s creamy, it froths well in espresso drinks, and for environmentally conscious coffee drinkers, oats are a relatively guilt-free crop compared with some of the other popular alternatives.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2021
A slime from the snake’s skin froths over the dog’s jaws, and the sight is very unpleasant.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies
Magenta explosions of bougainvillea frothed over the kitchen’s gates and the cinder-block walls of the vacant lot next door.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2023
I squeezed the trigger on the blender until the mixture frothed up the sides of the jar, threatening to spew out.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022
The host held out a glass; behind him flashed a grey pic of the Bronx estuary, waves frothed with yellow foam.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
Pour yourself some coffee, add some frothed milk, snuggle under your gravity blanket, and enjoy a movie on your 1080p resolution video projector.
From The Verge ● Nov. 30, 2020
White-capped waves frothed and churned in the bay.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
What that means is we failed a lot in order to perfect it, to make the Barista the highest quality it can be, especially when it comes to frothing qualities for making lattes and cappuccinos.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2024
George says both players are "frothing" at the prospect of facing South Africa.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024
During their two-night run at the Fonda, the dance floor was filled with young fans whom Taylor happily describes as “young frothers, just frothing about life, like rabid frothing,” she says with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
Suddenly, at the beach, there was life everywhere: fish frothing in the surf, fish flooding inlets.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2024
Halfway down the street, he slipped into a building with grimy windows and a swinging metal sign overhead: a frothing mug surrounded by a circle of twisted rope.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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