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mania

[mey-nee-uh, meyn-yuh] / ˈmeɪ ni ə, ˈmeɪn jə /


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These are the investors dropping bitcoin and other digital tokens and getting swept up in the mania over AI stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Insomnia and mania began to set in - and that triggered him, he says, to "burn down" everything he had built - his marriage, his friendships, and his business.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

To understand peptide mania, he said, you need to understand that wellness has become profoundly obsessed with masculinity.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2026

Probably more important, the stock mania of the late 1990s and the long bear market that followed are more distant memories.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

While the cooking mania lasted she went through Mrs. Cornelius’s Receipt Book as if it were a mathematical exercise, working out the problems with patience and care.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Sadly, those who warn about stock-market manias, bubbles and Ponzi finance always look wrong until they look right.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

No one seems to know, but I find it helpful to remind myself constantly that the internet can make niche manias look like moral revolutions.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 5, 2025

It’s hard to value the potential growth of such businesses, which is why speculative meme-stock manias can take hold so easily.

From Barron's Oct. 23, 2025

Our generally temperate nation, although it is an unparalleled success, has a history flecked with end-of-times manias, which often are fueled by religious imagery.

From Washington Post Apr. 7, 2023

Used to his manias, Aureliano paid no attention to him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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