There are fireworks at the end, but by then the hopes are fizzling away.

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Big trials such as this one are often fought through the press before fizzling out.

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Over the course of the past year, much has been written about the slow fizzling out of iAd.

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The leveraged buy-out approach may already be fizzling because the generous debt terms that it relied on are no longer available.

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The zest for reforming pensions, for liberalising the labour market, for speeding up privatisation, for deregulating, has appeared to be fizzling.

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The pressure is on the Tigers to get back to the World Series in 2013, after fizzling in a five-game contest in 2012.

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He says the reason why so many cancer drugs are fizzling in trials is that common tumors contain too many mutations for targeted drugs to work.

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Despite Boyle's widely acclaimed efforts, for many skeptical Londoners the Olympics had seemed in danger of blazing and fizzling like the obligatory fireworks of the opening and closing proceedings.

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It's not likely that a weak storm that swirls harmlessly in the Atlantic before fizzling will be referenced in the future, but once a large storm ravages a coast, its name becomes infamous, Vaccaro said.

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That fizzling blue light on the corner?

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Meanwhile, the fad is fizzling.

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