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  • adjective Having the characteristics of a bubble.

Etymologies

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From bubble +‎ -like.

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Examples

  • Servitors of the native assembage waved fans and tall rods with bubblelike appendages before her flushed face.

    "The Morons" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Steven Pearlstein writes, nearly every asset market you can think of is showing signs of bubblelike behavior.

    Bubble Talk, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Steven Pearlstein writes, nearly every asset market you can think of is showing signs of bubblelike behavior.

    EconLog: Finance: stocks, options, etc. Archives 2009

  • In contrast to the Japan of 1989, the U.S. stock market never experienced bubblelike conditions; valuations peaked in October 2007 with a PE ratio of 15.

    More Than A Bear Rally 2008

  • In the early 1990s, after years of bubblelike expansion in its equity and real-estate markets, the Japanese economy, then and now the second largest in the world, began a swoon from which it has only recently recovered.

    When Superpowers Slide 2008

  • It's one thing to see bubblelike price rises in speculative new issues or in rapidly evolving businesses like the Internet or biotech, where you can go overnight from the outhouse to the penthouse.

    What Goes Up. . . 2008

  • The spectacular "Water Cube" — the bubblelike Beijing Olympic swimming venue — has been praised for its architecture, but it bears an even more unusual distinction.

    Chinese and Proud of It 2008

  • One country where bubblelike conditions are in evidence is China, a stock market that remains largely closed to foreign investors.

    Global Markets Stem Losses 2007

  • Steven Pearlstein writes, nearly every asset market you can think of is showing signs of bubblelike behavior.

    EconLog: March 2005 Archives 2005

  • George leaped a small growth topped with deep blue bubblelike blossoms.

    Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

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