eye-watering
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Optimism around the AI spending spree has driven much of the record-setting rally this year, with particularly eye-watering gains seen in individual stocks like Micron,
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Beijing and Washington had been locked in a blistering trade war in which US levies on many Chinese goods reached an eye-watering 145 percent.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Baby boomers, who tended to buy postwar and contemporary art, pushed prices for artists including Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon to eye-watering levels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
The LIV project, which pivoted to a more traditional 72-hole format this year, has been bankrolled by an eye-watering amount of money from PIF.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Slightly cross-eyed, with shoulder-length white hair the texture of candyfloss, he wore a cap whose tassel dangled in front of his nose and robes of an eye-watering shade of egg-yolk yellow.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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