meltdown
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The best case for not selling Berkshire right now is if you think we are going to have another stock-market meltdown sometime soon.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
In “Digger,” he returns to serious cinema caked in prosthetics playing an oil baron who causes a global meltdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The prime specimen here is the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which was empaneled under former California Treasurer Phil Angelides to report on the financial meltdown of 2007-2008.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
After the housing meltdown, big banks pulled back from the mortgage market as the government required them to hold more capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
So let me start the puro desastre, the, like, total meltdown, from the beginning: three Sundays ago at our weekly family dinner at Abuela’s restaurant, La Cocina de la Isla.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
Mr. Starritt packs a lot into his sweeping novel—from underwater turbines to hydrogen-powered rockets, financial meltdowns to renewable-energy startups, Japanese gangsters to Italian cuisine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It was one of the biggest software meltdowns of all time, and the stock declined by 36% in the next two weeks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
DFKs’ explosions or meltdowns occur during emotional turbulence.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
I wanted to crawl into my closet and fold the door closed just as Moira did during her hysterical meltdowns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
With me as the worried mother figure who consoled him over bad breakups, and him as the sensitive kid who listened and supported me through my meltdowns.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
