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UK
/bˈʌbəl/
]
[ US /ˈbəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈbəbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
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a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
his proposal was nothing but a house of cards
a real estate bubble - a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
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an impracticable and illusory idea
he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble
VERB
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cause to form bubbles
bubble gas through a liquid -
flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
babbling brooks -
rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
bubble to the surface -
expel gas from the stomach
Please don't burp at the table -
form, produce, or emit bubbles
The soup was bubbling
How To Use bubble In A Sentence
- I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
- Better to wait until bubbles burst and manage the consequences, softening the economic blow by loosening monetary policy very quickly.
- While he was busy, I punched a Tylenol caplet out of its plastic bubble. Ancient, Strange, and Lovely
- Some ensembles shimmered with metallic accents, while others popped in bubblegum pink.
- Its spectral presence looms over the city, its pointed top a needle to the bubble. Times, Sunday Times
- And when I see how many people are being sucked into gold investments from all those cheesy radio and TV ads (with their overt or sometimes explicit survivalist overtones), I see another bubble being blown that at some sad point will go blooey. Fox Business News, Where Green Arrows Turn Brown Eyes Blue: James Wolcott
- She said: 'I felt very safe in my little bubble of motherhood and domesticity. The Sun
- That and music that seems to bubble through you like vintage champagne. Times, Sunday Times
- But the flash of imagining pops like a bubble.
- There were three gunners, both front and rear of the plane and one in a bubble canopy half way down the fuselage.