heady
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Mounting yields alone won’t do it, Edwards argues, but they do “leave equity investors increasingly vulnerable to bad news such as a downturn in heady profits optimism.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
And though “Tony” doesn’t entirely lack that heady romanticization, its choice to amplify its introductory quote — making Bourdain an even more insufferable lout for dramatic effect — feels antithetical to Bourdain’s raw candor.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
The two sides played nice in the heady days of 2025, when the midterms were far enough off in the distance and everyone was willing to pay lip service to Piker’s more exotic ideas.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
The increasing popularity of such models has turned the AI race on its head, threatening the heady valuations of Anthropic and OpenAI as they prepare for public listings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
On her way home from his family’s house one warm summer night, Kathleen, full of the heady rush of first love, lost herself in the Wood.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
Nothing like the durable consolations of late-life romance, but headier, more exciting and, in the worst cases, far more damaging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
This is the type of movie that serves as an amuse-bouche to proper, headier dramas for the PG-13 crowd, and its bespoke accessibility is thoroughly appealing.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
Investors are concentrating capital in the most trusted VC firms rather than taking chances on new managers as they do when the market is headier, Clarkson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
That helped propel him toward Texas Tech, where things got headier.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
The ale of Ireland is heady, but headier far the ale of the Great Country.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
Fox Corp. sat out the headiest days of the streaming boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
“He’s one of the headiest baseball players I’ve ever been around,” said Roberts of Hernández.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
His passion for theater, from its grubbiest particulars to its headiest heights, is the thread that binds together a slightly miscellaneous collection.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021
It was one of the headiest plays of the day in the Kraken’s first scrimmage, one where Donskoi’s White team defeated the Blue team 5-1.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2021
The headiest colt in time will learn the lesson of the breaking pen.
From Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls by Various
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