boom
Example Sentences
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At first they made money from illegal logging and plantations, later benefitting from a speculative property boom in the cities fuelled by Chinese investors.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
Morgan Stanley views Western Digital and Seagate as underappreciated AI boom stocks, reiterating Overweight ratings.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
And the entire investment thesis for the AI hardware boom just got compressed along with it.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
The novel partnership between students and police to break open a decades-old murder case, with a love triangle at its center, was irresistible fodder for the media’s true-crime boom.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
House prices in the sand states had risen fastest during the boom and so would likely crash fastest in a bust—and when they did, those low California default rates would soar.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.