as in elevated
located at a greater height than average or usual
we were sitting way up in the nosebleed seats
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Recent Examples of nosebleed
Yes, those have long passed nosebleed territory.
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Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Thanksgiving Day prices for nosebleed seats on the secondary market, which usually hover in the $200-$400 range, went for $50-$80 in 2024.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2025
While credit card debt continues to climb to nosebleed heights, delinquencies are slowing and average balances are lower relative to borrowers’ earnings than before the pandemic.
—J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
The resale tickets were astronomically priced, even for nosebleed seats.
—Cynthia Moss, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
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Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Thanksgiving Day prices for nosebleed seats on the secondary market, which usually hover in the $200-$400 range, went for $50-$80 in 2024.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2025
While credit card debt continues to climb to nosebleed heights, delinquencies are slowing and average balances are lower relative to borrowers’ earnings than before the pandemic.
—J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
The resale tickets were astronomically priced, even for nosebleed seats.
—Cynthia Moss, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
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Kevin Carter/Getty Images This combination of high prices and elevated mortgage rates is still keeping many U.S. buyers to the sidelines of the market.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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Although rates are off their highs, they are still elevated and worth watching.—
JJ Kinahan,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Non-Maintainable Systems Lack of clean code structure, high entropy in the codebase, absence of modularity, dependency chaos, difficult debugging and lack of documentation can occur when applying vibe coding without a core engineering mindset.—
Naresh Prajapati,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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The prison drama — set to start principal photography in Ireland later this year — explores the ideas of guilt, the death penalty, and redemption, all through the lens of food of the highest order, and the world’s most infamous meal: the Ortolan.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
29 May 2025
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“Nosebleed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nosebleed. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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