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mania

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


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Bank of America analyst Michael Hartnett has already warned that the mega IPOs-driven retail mania risks creating a bubble similar to the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

“I wouldn’t necessarily call this a mania, but the enthusiasm for IPOs is very high,” said David Shapiro, CEO of OpenVC, which helped create the index.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

“The pace of It — that someone would be up all night tweeting — is a clinical indicator of some kind of either mania or sundowning.”

From Salon • May 26, 2026

Or consider the dot-com mania of the late 1990s, when eToys, Pets.com and hordes of other flash-in-the-pan internet companies drenched the market with initial public offerings of stock.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

It seemed that people failed to meet my eye, made as if to walk through me; my superstitions began to transform themselves into something like mania.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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