blowup

Example Sentences

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A few months later, the OpenAI leaders had a blowup in the office.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Market Financial Solutions is the latest worrying blowup.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

But by his measure, it’s “only” 1998, when the blowup of Long-Term Capital Management spooked the S&P 500, but the market still had a good distance left to run.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Ahead of the August 2024 blowup, speculators were extremely short on the yen.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 5, 2025

Children wearing what few clothes they had—which even that was only for our benefit, I knew, after Father’s blowup over the little dress-code problem.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver