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manias

  • plural
    of mania.
    mania
    noun
    excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze.

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Sadly, those who warn about stock-market manias, bubbles and Ponzi finance always look wrong until they look right.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

It’s hard to value the potential growth of such businesses, which is why speculative meme-stock manias can take hold so easily.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

“Bloodline” reminds me of the breed of darkly comic postwar novels by Robert Coover, William H. Gass, Harry Crews and others, in which regional manias stand in for a broader national lunacy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

And with the meager resonance of most made-in-America manias.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023

Used to his manias, Aureliano paid no attention to him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez