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1918 Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Sunday Leader 29 Oct. 10/4 You people at home look upon the world as a heaven, for you know no difference; you are living in a little bubble, a little paradise.

1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) v. 59 I was made welcome at the Grove, a country kingdom in a bubble of its own.

1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 101/1 I like to walk on the street in my little bubble.

1995 Mother Jones June 43/2 He is..a man who prefers the security of his studio bubble to the uncontrolled environment of real life.

2017 M. Moran End of British Politics? 76 The Westminster elite was increasingly denounced for living in a ‘Westminster bubble’—but at the very moment when the bubble had burst.