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(economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
real estate bubble
dot-com bubble
2007, Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash, Island Press, →ISBN, page 46:
Thanks to the proliferation of semiconductor chips and cell phones—the number of U.S. cell phones grew from essentially zero in 1983 to nearly two hundred million by the end of 2004, and as of 2003 over one billion cell phones were in use worldwide, so by the time the high-tech bubble approached its bursting point in 2000 and 2001, coltan had become an extremely hot commodity.
(figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC:
Thomas, so often West Brom's most positive attacker down their left side and up against Salgado, twice almost burst the bubble of excitement around the ground but he had two efforts superbly saved by Robinson.
2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in The A.V. Club:
He’s wrapped up snugly in a cozy bubble of self-regard, talking for his own sake more than anyone else’s.
2017 March 21, Michiko Kakutani, “‘The Death of Expertise’ Explores How Ignorance Became a Virtue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Citizens of all political persuasions (not to mention members of the Trump administration) can increasingly live in their own news media bubbles, consuming only views similar to their own.
2020 August 27, Kevin Roose, “What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?”, in New York Times:
Inside the right-wing Facebook bubble, President Trump’s response to Covid-19 has been strong and effective, Joe Biden is barely capable of forming sentences, and Black Lives Matter is a dangerous group of violent looters.
2022 February 6, Benedict Brook, “Dark side of paradise: 'Sinister' cracks show in perfect suburb”, in NZ Herald:
"We know we're in a bubble," said one Villager interviewed for the film. "But it's a nice bubble".
An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
1998, District of Columbia Appropriations for 1998: Hearings:
Later that day, the unit was staffed with only one officer, who was required to stay in the bubble.
(poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game.
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The blood bubbled up to her brain, and made such a sound there, as of boiling waters, that she did not hear the words which Mr. Bradshaw first spoke […]
With some technical improvement, I could see how the process of imitating my work would soon become fast and streamlined, and the many dark potentials bubbled to the forefront of my mind.
2002, David Flanagan, JavaScript: the definitive guide:
The target of this event is the most deeply nested common ancestor of all changes that occurred in the document, and it bubbles up the document tree […]
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 443:
No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government […]
1711 June 12, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 89; republished in The Works of Joseph Addison, volume 1, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842, page 142:
He tells me with great passion that she has bubbled him out of his youth; that she drilled him on to five and fifty [years old], and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another.
1759, Laurence Sterne, Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
I need not tell your Worships, that this was done with so much cunning and artifice, —that the great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.
Groggily her mind went back through the long hours to 10 P.M. She had fed Junior, bubbled him, diped him—according to plan.
1957, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Be My Guest, page 52:
I walked him, pushed him, pulled him, and “bubbled” him, drawing the line at changing him, and found that the ability to bring actual happiness to another being’s face, even such a small red one, simply by walking into the room, made me feel ten feet tall.
1958, David Mordecai Levy, Behavioral analysis: analysis of clinical observations of behavior as applied to mother-newborn relationships, page 358:
Mother sat up, picked up baby, put him on shoulder, bubbled him.
1922, Conal O’Riordan, In London: The Story of Adam and Marriage, page 164:
It seemed to Adam that he felt the blood in his toes creeping up his legs and body until it reached his brain where, finding it could go no farther, it bubbled him into dumbness: it added to his confusion to know that he looked as if some such accident had befallen his circulation.
1973, Henry Cecil Walsh, Bonhomme: French-Canadian Stories and Sketches, page 9:
A few minutes more would give him his first glimpse of the village wherein, many months before, he had left his wife and little ones. Anticipation bubbled him into song, and he broke forth into—A la claire fontaine M’en allant promener.
2011, Tim O’Brien, Northern Lights, page 201:
The frothing sensation bubbled him all over, a boiling without heat or any sound or light.
Delighted with this promenade, little Edith bubbled her joy without cessation.
1999, Mollie Molay, Daddy by Christmas, page 106:
“She’s a little girl like me,” Beth bubbled. “Her name is Buttons, ’cause she has a small nose. And she has a twin, too, just like me. Only my twin’s name is Carly.”
2008, Douglas Allen Rhodes, Sex and Murder, page 55:
Rachel bubbled her thanks and brushed past the Reverend, me in tow.
2012, Andre Paul Goddard, The Blue Basin, page 414:
But Ms. Loomat, far from a negative reaction, bubbled her joy at the news even congratulating Ms Lee on her acquisition.
1929, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 201, page 50:
She bubbled her lips at Junior and wrinkled her eyes.
1978, Poul Anderson, The Night Face and Other Stories, page 159:
She hasn’t bubbled her lips yet, has she?
2005, Tracy Daugherty, Late in the Standoff: Stories and a Novella, page 17:
I didn’t see much connection between the Bunnies and Michelle—something bubbled her blouses, and I’d heard her whisper with my sister about training bras, but her body was angular, skinny.