as in hissing
to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\
oozing gobs of grease, a pair of fatty burgers fizzled on the grill
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Recent Examples of fizzling
On Wednesday, Duff ramped up the anticipation for her new album, teasing a new song about dive bar hookups, inconvenient roommates, and a once-red-hot romance fizzling into the tombs of relationship graveyards.
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Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
But if recent trading trends hold, the market may continue fizzling into year-end instead.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2025
Chicago use-of-force case fizzling The class-action lawsuit that sparked an expansive order restricting immigration agents’ use of force in the Chicago area is fizzling out.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
Congress has less than a month before health insurance premiums are set to spike for millions of Americans, and hopes of a deal to mitigate the pain are fizzling.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 3 Dec. 2025
That truce showed signs of fizzling this week, though, with China announcing strict new limits on exports of rare earth minerals crucial to high-tech products.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
This isn't just a five-star quarterback fizzling in the face of runaway expectations.
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2025
Justin Fuente, his successor, got off to a good start, winning 19 games in his first two seasons, before fizzling out, to be replaced by Pry and his mediocre tenure.
—Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
But if recent trading trends hold, the market may continue fizzling into year-end instead.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2025
Chicago use-of-force case fizzling The class-action lawsuit that sparked an expansive order restricting immigration agents’ use of force in the Chicago area is fizzling out.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
Congress has less than a month before health insurance premiums are set to spike for millions of Americans, and hopes of a deal to mitigate the pain are fizzling.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 3 Dec. 2025
That truce showed signs of fizzling this week, though, with China announcing strict new limits on exports of rare earth minerals crucial to high-tech products.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
This isn't just a five-star quarterback fizzling in the face of runaway expectations.
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2025
Justin Fuente, his successor, got off to a good start, winning 19 games in his first two seasons, before fizzling out, to be replaced by Pry and his mediocre tenure.
—Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fizzling
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In 2017 Dikansh Parmar of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change in Germany, rescued an Indian cobra (Naja naja) coiled around a train’s window bars that was hissing and, understandably, frightening passengers.—
Richard Kemeny,
Scientific American,
6 Feb. 2026
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If the pressure relief valve begins hissing or spraying water, then something is wrong.—
Timothy Dale,
The Spruce,
28 Jan. 2026
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Couples dance on the grass while chefs across the park tend bubbling pots of jambalaya and gumbo.—
Phil Thomas,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2026
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Catherine was the queen of self-abusing, hard-living, and heading-over-the-hill entertainment veterans — women who were trapped behind a façade of slick showbiz tics that barely covered the active volcano of psychosis bubbling right under their surface.—
Merrill Markoe,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Fizzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fizzling. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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