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mania

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


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London's sold-out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition will open Thursday to a British public gripped by "mania" as the medieval artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England goes on display outside France for the first time.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

But, unlike dot-com mania, the AI trade is continuing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Pressured speech - a rapid, frantic way of talking - can be a sign of mania.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

One testament to the scale of puffin mania: “We put the entire season online each year and this year we sold out in 15 to 20 minutes,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

In those days windowpanes were brought from France by ship and the animal’s mania for crashing into them became a problem, until Clara thought of painting cats on the glass.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

For Kedrosky, then, the behavioral aspects of manias and bubbles don’t change: Investors chase things at the wrong time and then panic.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 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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