How to Use dot-com in a Sentence
dot-com
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The decade was marked by the rise of hip hop, the dot-com era, and grunge culture.
— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024 -
Just because the dot-com bust happened doesn’t mean the biggest five companies in the world today aren’t internet companies.
— George Davis, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 -
After the jazz and jet ages, came the dot-com bubble buzz, and the brief oligarchization of the pool.
— Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023 -
In 1999, with the dot-com boom near its apogee, Angie’s List moved online.
— Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 14 May 2023 -
Blank compared the technology to the bubbly birth of the world wide web, and the dot-com crash that followed.
— Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 28 July 2024 -
When Westfield took over the mall in 2002, San Francisco was emerging from the dot-com crash.
— Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 14 June 2023 -
This reminds Professor Shiller of the rallies of the 1920s and the dot-com boom, which both ended badly.
— Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024 -
The 2001 recession, meanwhile, was prompted by the dot-com crash.
— Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023 -
The last time a year was going this badly for utility stocks, the dot-com bubble was about to burst.
— Karen Langley, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2023 -
Take a market darling of the dot-com era, Cisco Systems Inc..
— Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024 -
Where and when the phoenix will rise in a city made famous by the Gold Rush and the dot-com bubble is a question that will likely not be answered for years.
— Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023 -
The dot-com bubble made things worse, causing defaults to approach 5%.
— Michael Foster, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 -
Like Facebook’s rise after the dot-com bubble burst, the killer app for Web3 may not have even been invented yet.
— Adam Kovacevich, Fortune, 1 May 2023 -
The legacy business, in his view, was on the brink of a breakout, with the dot-com component sure to fire up the afterburners.
— Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 3 June 2024 -
Investors can’t agree on whether the tech-stock rally looks like the prelude to an eventual bust—like that of the dot-com era—or the start of a more durable rally.
— WSJ, 20 June 2023 -
Advertisement Read more: The AI craze is no dot-com bubble.
— Andy Mills, Quartz, 20 June 2024 -
That was the peak of another technology boom — the dot-com bubble.
— Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024 -
The metric became the foundation for Shiller’s argument that the dot-com frenzy would prove to be a bubble.
— Greg McKenna, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2024 -
During the dot-com bubble, the standards for listing companies were very low.
— Peter Cohan, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 -
The dot-com era, then nearing its end, had been literally named for addresses such as this one.
— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024 -
The Audible player never took off, but the companion Audible.com platform grew roots in the nascent dot-com business.
— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Wright digs into the underbelly of the dot-com bubble with this profile of Seth Warshavsky, an early web whiz kid who rose to prominence on the strength of — what else?
— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024 -
Prior to the dot-com crash, the growth of network equipment makers was absolutely eye-popping.
— Peter Cohan, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023 -
Unlike the companies that went bust in the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s, Big Tech can spend exorbitant sums of money and be largely fine.
— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 July 2024 -
When the dot-com bubble burst and sent the economy cratering, Dalio and Bridgewater emerged unscathed.
— Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023 -
There’s a tech bust emptying expensive office towers, much like the dot-com bubble did around the same time AsiaSF first opened.
— Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023 -
The railway boom of the late nineteenth century and the dot-com bubble during the early years of this century illustrate her claim.
— Barry Eichengreen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022 -
The housing market has been upended by the Fed driving interest rates up to their highest level since the dot-com bubble at the turn of the century.
— Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024 -
The dot-com crash of the early 2000s wiped out a swath of companies that had tried to capitalize on hype around the early internet, but also set the stage for the next wave of tech investment.
— Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023 -
O’Neal made deals with internet service provider Freeinternet.com and co-founded the shoe and apparel e-commerce company Dunk.net, both of which failed during the dot-com bust.
— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
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