How to Use dot-com in a Sentence

dot-com

noun
  • This caused the dot-com craze in the late 1990s, which ended in a bust.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The decade was marked by the rise of hip hop, the dot-com era, and grunge culture.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024
  • That trend has been running since the end of the dot-com bubble.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 12 Oct. 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
  • The dot-com bubble bursting and the financial adjustment of the early- and mid-2000s caused quite a ruckus as well.
    — Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 26 Oct. 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
  • He was perfectly positioned to be part of the first dot-com boom.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Yet the core takeaway of Against Platforms is that none of this is truly new, and began as long ago as the dot-com bubble, at the turn of the millennium.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • In 2000, the introduction of the internet was driving a dot-com boom throughout the region.
    — Shawna Chen, Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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 central bank only cuts by half-points when there’s something dire happening in the economy, such as the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001.
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2024
  • One was the dot-com collapse, which flattened the bubbly frivolity of early e-commerce.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • But 23 years ago, Gorny was a struggling entrepreneur who’d lost nearly all his money in the dot-com bubble crash.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 20 Nov. 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

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