rubber band
Example Sentences
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The AI market has become a rubber band, with a growing divergence between so-called hyperscalers and the companies selling semiconductor chips as software becomes cheaper to develop outside the West, according to Goldman Sachs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
You slice it the wrong way and, instead of a tender, juicy bite, you’re left gnawing on something that tastes like a rubber band.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
But sometimes a disturbance can cause the polar vortex to stretch like a rubber band.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
"Think of it like a rubber band being pulled," Judah Cohen, a climate dynamics scientist at MIT, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
At the stop before Bruce’s house, they would stop playing, wrap a rubber band around each pile, hold the stack under each other’s chin and spit on each other’s deck saying, “Thou shalt not shuffle.”
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
