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Just twenty-one years after World War I ended, World War II erupted, killing four times as many people.

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But the seal couldn’t answer because he suddenly erupted into a fit of coughing.

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My sick kid calls during a critical meeting; a work crisis erupts at dinnertime.

It was then that the financial dispute erupted.

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It is then seen slamming into the ground as a huge fireball erupts around it about a minute into its journey.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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