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froth

[frawth, froth] / frɔθ, frɒθ /


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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

Signs of froth are everywhere, with the IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI expected to be the biggest ever and investors desperate to find ways in.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

Overall, however, with gold down a fifth from its Jan. 28 peak, much of the deleveraging taken place and the speculative froth eliminated from positioning, Bruce is comfortable with his sizable weighting in gold.

From MarketWatch Mar. 27, 2026

Captain Soderland would stroke his beard; Josiah would wipe the froth from his mustache and clap the captain on the shoulder blade.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

It also froths milk and makes cold foam, which opens up even more possibilities for a build-your-own drink bar.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

"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

"Now where the wave, with loud unquiet song, Dash'd o'er the rocky channel, froths along, Or where the silver waters soothed to rest, The tree's tall shadow sleeps upon its breast."

From Canadian Crusoes by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

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

This is where things get a little bit tricky: To make a latte, frothed milk is poured evenly into the cup, creating milky coffee with a thin layer of foam on top.

From Salon Apr. 7, 2022

Candy makers melted sugar and frothed it up with a pinch of baking soda to make this dalgona candy, Ms. Park recalled.

From New York Times Oct. 5, 2021

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

He snapped the lid for her, and the drink frothed out.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

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

One second, you’re hammering along the chaotic undulating surface with frothing white spray in your face.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 9, 2024

Suddenly, at the beach, there was life everywhere: fish frothing in the surf, fish flooding inlets.

From Slate Feb. 4, 2024

For a moment all we can hear are glasses clinking and milk frothing.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon




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