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And the scale of this pullback still pales next to its 75% collapse during the 2021–2022 bear market.
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Emily Nicolle, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
According to Fidelity, a bear market is when a stock market index falls by at least 20% from recent highs.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 21 Nov. 2025
In historical bubbles, commentators had often been calling a bubble for years before a bear market arrived.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Crypto and crypto-adjacent products and services have experienced significant growth, adoption, and acceptance since the last bear market kicked off by the collapse of FTX, but still are – for all intents and purposes – a fringe component of the financial world.
—Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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Emily Nicolle, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
According to Fidelity, a bear market is when a stock market index falls by at least 20% from recent highs.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 21 Nov. 2025
In historical bubbles, commentators had often been calling a bubble for years before a bear market arrived.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Crypto and crypto-adjacent products and services have experienced significant growth, adoption, and acceptance since the last bear market kicked off by the collapse of FTX, but still are – for all intents and purposes – a fringe component of the financial world.
—Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bear market
bull market
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While the bull market rally of the last three years has been defined by artificial intelligence, traders, nervous tech stocks will find an uphill climb more difficult in 2026, started rotating into other groups.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
2 Jan. 2026
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Tech and artificial intelligence stocks have powered US markets higher since October 2022, when OpenAI first debuted ChatGPT, marking the start of an AI bull market.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Bear market.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bear%20market. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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