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[swoon] / swun /


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Some spot Franklin and Nigel and smile and swoon.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

But investors may have found a way through the swoon that gripped stocks earlier this month.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

A summer swoon for tech stocks may be taking hold, as another bumpy ride looms Tuesday after South Korea’s red-hot stock market slumped 10%.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

There was a collective swoon when news came through on Thursday that McTominay, the totem, had an iffy tummy, but he's good now.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

And Bobo would show these monstrous teeth that looked like dentures when they don’t quite fit, and the beast would grunt and swoon and move its head from side to side.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

Occasionally Mr. Paul’s violin swoons and shrieks in a manner we associate with the instrument, but he’s just as likely to use it as a starting point for an electronic drone.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

However, with strong earnings providing fundamental support, those swoons are likely to be the exception rather than the norm.

From Barron's Jun. 8, 2026

Everybody swoons when they put four and five on weaker teams.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2025

On top of all that, swoons for the Samantha Jones of it all – an amuse bouche successfully served that's bound to create issues to surmount down the road.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2023

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they rethought the whole show once America swoons over Cha-Cha the chow chow.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Within about 10 days the S&P 500 had shed nearly 14% as stocks swooned following the “Liberation Day” tariff announcement at the start of April.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

Those techniques were behind the “DeepSeek shock” in January 2025, when Liang’s company released a powerful but inexpensive new open-source model and U.S. stocks briefly swooned at the unexpected rise of Chinese competition.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

“Spartacus: Blood and Sand” arrived smack in the middle of the most prestigious stretch of television’s modern Golden Age, when audiences swooned over “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men.”

From Salon Dec. 7, 2025

None of this was good news, but if investors were on board with the long-term prospects of the neocloud, the stock wouldn’t have swooned so hard.

From Barron's Nov. 13, 2025

Lonna had swooned for the cameras as he wriggled out of the burrow.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

You haven't seen such swooning since the golden age of the Hollywood diva.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

They love complaining about the characters they hate and swooning over the characters they adore.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2026

The boxing world is swooning over Moses Itauma.

From BBC Mar. 28, 2026

Were this another sport—football, basketball, baseball—they’d be swooning over Alcaraz as an all timer.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 2, 2026

I thought gazing into someone’s eyes was a cliché from love stories, but Andre and Lisa-Marie Anne have turned swooning into an Olympic sport.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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