Bubble

bubbles in window glass, or in a lens

Then a soldier […] / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth

real estate bubble

dot-com bubble

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.

The yawning gap between data-center expenditures and the rest of the economy has caused whispers of bubble to rise to a chorus. […] Rapid construction of canals, railroads, and the fiber-optic cables laid during the dot-com bubble all created frenzies of hype, investment, and financial speculation that crashed markets.

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.

He’s wrapped up snugly in a cozy bubble of self-regard, talking for his own sake more than anyone else’s.

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.

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.

"We know we're in a bubble," said one Villager interviewed for the film. "But it's a nice bubble".

Later that day, the unit was staffed with only one officer, who was required to stay in the bubble.

Gany's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.

For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man.

Are you having a bubble?!

Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game.

bubble watch

"There was an empty room and this is my house," Mark Philip told the Herald. "Where am I supposed to go? Whose bubble am I supposed to infect?"

A bare lamp (bulb, globe, 'bubble') radiates light in all directions.

The laminate is bubbling.

Rage bubbled inside him.

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.

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 […]

No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government […]

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.

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.

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.

Mother sat up, picked up baby, put him on shoulder, bubbled him.

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.

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.

The frothing sensation bubbled him all over, a boiling without heat or any sound or light.

Mrs. Hinds beamed at Ipsie through pince-nez and bubbled her joy through thin lips, but Ipsie made no reply.

Delighted with this promenade, little Edith bubbled her joy without cessation.

“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.”

Rachel bubbled her thanks and brushed past the Reverend, me in tow.

But Ms. Loomat, far from a negative reaction, bubbled her joy at the news even congratulating Ms Lee on her acquisition.

She bubbled her lips at Junior and wrinkled her eyes.

She hasn’t bubbled her lips yet, has she?

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.

Her mouth hung slightly open and water droplets bubbled her forehead, like oversized sweat.

Tears of thanksgiving bubbled her eyes and blurred her vision.

Oily beads of sweat bubbled his forehead.

Cross out answers as you eliminate them, and practice bubbling your answers on the sheet provided at the very end of the book.

They bubbled her answers on Scantron tests, changed her sanitary napkins, helped her get in and out of the bathroom with a minimum of fuss.

You don’t want to go back and forth between the test booklet and your answer sheet to bubble your answers.