How to Use dot-com in a Sentence

dot-com

noun
  • These are the dot-com stocks of this era.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The dot-com bubble was very bad.
    — ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
  • But that was also true of the dot-com era.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Google rose like a phoenix from the dot-com’s ashes.
    — Sunil Sharan, Fortune, 27 May 2026
  • This, in turn, leads to a crash, just like during the dot-com era.
    — Tasmin Lockwood,chloe Taylor, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Even at the dot-com trough, anyone who stayed in was still in the green.
    — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That was just before the dot-com bubble burst.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • In the dot-com era, telecoms levered up to lay fiber fast.
    — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 1 Jan. 2026
  • That trend has been running since the end of the dot-com bubble.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 12 Oct. 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
  • Eleven dot-com companies bought ads.
    — Lorena O’Neil, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The top spot belongs to the opening bell of the dot-com bear market.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 8 June 2026
  • Such name changes were legion during the dot-com bubble.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The dot-com bubble, where clicks mattered more than profits.
    — Doug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The dot-com crash was painful but didn’t spill over into an economy-wide event.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • With all this comes fears of a bubble, often equated to the dot-com boom and bust .
    — Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
  • So far, though, this cycle still looks healthier than the dot-com boom did at its peak.
    — Andrew Graham, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • This caused the dot-com craze in the late 1990s, which ended in a bust.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • He was perfectly positioned to be part of the first dot-com boom.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
  • So there was a very productive residue that was left behind by the dot-com bubble.
    — ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
  • And of course, there are the frequent comparisons to the run-up to the dot-com bubble.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • During his dot-com days, ​Musk had treated money as code.
    — Ben Tarnoff, Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The Internet didn’t fail because dot-com stocks crashed.
    — Doug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • After the jazz and jet ages, came the dot-com bubble buzz, and the brief oligarchization of the pool.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2025
  • And as anyone who lived through the dot-com bubble can tell you, the story can be right even when the price is wrong.
    — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 May 2026
  • Some of the quick compression in value has drawn comparisons to the dot-com bust.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • At the height of the dot-com boom, Burry was publicly short Amazon.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The late-1990s dot-com boom is instructive.
    — Perrie M. Weiner, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The dot-com bubble made things worse, causing defaults to approach 5%.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

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