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- noun A small boom, as in business, politics, or the birth rate.
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- noun finance A small period of rapid growth in a market.
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Examples
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The financial boomlet is most marked in key creative class strongholds such as Manhattan, Boston and San Francisco, as well as their surrounding, super-affluent suburbs.
The Smackdown Of The Creative Class Joel Kotkin 2010
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The financial boomlet is most marked in key creative class strongholds such as Manhattan, Boston and San Francisco, as well as their surrounding, super-affluent suburbs.
The Smackdown Of The Creative Class Joel Kotkin 2010
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The financial boomlet is most marked in key creative class strongholds such as Manhattan, Boston and San Francisco, as well as their surrounding, super-affluent suburbs.
The Smackdown Of The Creative Class Joel Kotkin 2010
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The financial boomlet is most marked in key creative class strongholds such as Manhattan, Boston and San Francisco, as well as their surrounding, super-affluent suburbs.
The Smackdown Of The Creative Class Joel Kotkin 2010
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Much of this boomlet is due to increased oil prices, of course.
Russia’s Hope, Michael Munger | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In some circles Oprah Winfrey is considered a political sage; there's even been a kind of boomlet for her potential as a vice presidential candidate.
The O'Reilly Factor O'Reilly, Bill 2000
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Well, if the productivity revolution -- at least as it is now unfolding -- won't save us, maybe the new baby "boomlet" will.
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The post election "boomlet" had cushioned inefficient companies to some extent and the banks had been more accommodating than usual with new businesses.
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The Washington Post, have argued that ElBaradei's return has created an environment in which the United States can play a positive role in advancing the cause of reform if the Obama administration approaches the ElBaradei "boomlet" with "less caution."
Feed for Arabist.net Issandr El Amrani 2010
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The Washington Post, have argued that ElBaradei's return has created an environment in which the United States can play a positive role in advancing the cause of reform if the Obama administration approaches the ElBaradei "boomlet" with "less caution."
Feed for Arabist.net Issandr El Amrani 2010
cravinforclavin commented on the word boomlet
A favorite of Thomas Ricks of the Washington Post.
November 10, 2007
ravages commented on the word boomlet
Not an omelette.
December 15, 2007
bilby commented on the word boomlet
An exploding omlette?
December 15, 2007
ravages commented on the word boomlet
bilby: Wouldn't that be an bomblette?
boomlet - what your pig will give birth to during periods of heightened economic growth and stock market surges.
December 15, 2007
bilby commented on the word boomlet
Noo, stock market runs procreate bulls in abundance. And bulls make far better sausurges.
December 15, 2007
ravages commented on the word boomlet
sausurges lead to baloney money?
December 15, 2007
uselessness commented on the word boomlet
Perhaps this refers to the world's smallest nuclear explosion or the effects of the atomic toaster?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
December 15, 2007