hiccup
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Over longer horizons, however, the S&P 500 on average barely suffers a hiccup because of first hikes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Doomsayers are always on hand, waiting for every hiccup on Wall Street or data center setback to proclaim the technology is about to pop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Any slight hiccup could spark selling, such as the words of a South Korean official.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
"If we do have a hiccup here and there that is also good to learn from."
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Jennifer and I showing up was barely a hiccup in their afternoon activities, and they were back to their usual summer fun.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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For all its little hiccups, “Carrie” does make one feel sad maybe 80% of the time, and anxious the rest of it, which is to say it does its job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Despite the hiccups, Monday’s mission should let SpaceX begin to recoup some of the $15 billion-plus it has spent on the rocket.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Given that backdrop—and a recent groundswell of concern about AI agents going rogue—Meta can ill afford any user-privacy hiccups in Muse’s rollout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Now Bob Chesney and the Bruins ask for patience as they work through their early hiccups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
His answers were a series of head movements, punctuated by yawning, raised eyebrows, and semi-swallowed hiccups.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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In one July 8 clip, Bolsonaro hiccuped approximately 14 times within the first minute.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
As for Mr. Osborne, who hiccuped for almost 70 years, he learned to live with it after trying various remedies and seeing multiple specialists.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Even as Europe, particularly Greece, has struggled, the U.S. market has barely hiccuped.
From US News ● Nov. 6, 2015
But when Wilder's routine hiccuped regularly in the 1960s, he lost that explosive snap in his barbed approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2015
He and Jam had been lying on a grassy hill behind the school, one they liked to roll down, watching the sky bump and skip in hiccuped blue as gravity played with them.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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The 15-time major winner, 50, can be seen co-operating with authorities and then hiccuping while he is being driven away in the back of the police car.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
The hiccuping ultimately "escalated to…a good deal of hiccup-induced puking," he said.
From Fox News ● Dec. 11, 2021
In the many recent presidential live streams, Bolsonaro’s hiccuping is evident, and he has prefaced some appearances by acknowledging his hiccupping and disrupted speech.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
Others, though, would work on exams with hiccuping computers, at uncomfortable tables with other children or adults making noise nearby.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2021
Whatever it was, my stomach started hiccuping again, jumping around like I was possessed by something nasty.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were hiccuped and hiccupped.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
"The smallest things upset me. The other day I jumped when a woman in the street hiccupped as she walked past me."
From Fox News ● Dec. 5, 2019
Celeste hiccupped or burped and it turned into a small retch, but nothing came up.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
I longed for a phrase that simply grew, one note to the next, like a singer; instead the lines hiccupped or gasped, the vibrato intermittent or delayed.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2017
A feverish baby hiccupped on its mother’s breast.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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If you are gargling at the same time that you are hiccupping, you might aspirate water.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Or a friend might send me another sweet video of her newborn hiccupping.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021
“I still write too many of her patented hiccupping, chicken-bone sentences,” said the L.A.-based writer and founder of Boyle Heights’ Libros Schmibros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
Lincoln was hiccupping a lot in the third trimester.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2021
But then I hiccup, and she starts hiccupping with laughter, and we're laughing when we break off our hug, though we're still holding hands.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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