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burst

[burst] / bɜrst /




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Both Messi and Ronaldo have benefited from how they play as well, walking rather running for long stretches of the game to conserve energy for the burst they need to lose a defender.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Owen burst past the Argentine defence to score a spectacular solo goal, before a clever free-kick saw Javier Zanetti level the scores before the break.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

The situation has burst into a brawl involving the city’s most powerful.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Joseph Adinolfi explained how the stock market’s double bubble might burst.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

Suddenly the great prey burst upon him, galloping with their branched heads high and their huge hooves splayed, as they flowed between the beech trees like an unstoppable Fast Wet.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

When an electrical current pushes the electrons through this ultra-thin pathway at high speeds, the electrons release their excess energy as bursts of sound-like vibrations known as phonons.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 2026

The device was intended to study gamma-ray bursts, what Caputo called "the most energetic things that happen in the universe."

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

San Francisco real estate agent Butch Haze of Compass has seen tech booms followed by ravenous bursts of homebuying since the first internet gold rush of the late 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

The long-term forecast also suggests significant bursts of heat are still likely in July and August.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

And then, almost as predictably as the book, Byrd bursts through their front door.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

Postal Service truck had slid 50 feet down an embankment, and the “box containing the frankfurters was bursted open and the contents strewn considerably,” Alexander wrote to a U.S.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2025

Previously, I’d been seduced by demonstrative courtship, but Mark wasn’t effusive, and when someone bursted into laughter with “She’s hysterical!” at one of my jokes, Mark looked bewildered.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 21, 2025

It bursted out of TikTok and into the mainstream last month, when Shakira performed the “Jiggle Jiggle” dance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2022

Minnesota bursted out to a 23-0 lead at halftime as Pittsburgh struggled on offense and with run defense.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2021

"The shell struck right over there, and hain't bursted yet," said the sick boy, looking up from sipping his broth, and pointing to a spot a short distance away.

From Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign by McElroy, John

Investors were watching the results especially closely after several sharp sell-offs in the tech sector over fears the AI bubble might be approaching its bursting point.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Both squads are bursting with talent, but all eyes will be on Kylian Mbappe and Lamine Yamal.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

But Carr did recall Cusack bursting into tears when she went to the wrong training ground.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

The second half of the decade vindicated his instincts—although even hotter economic conditions soon prompted Greenspan rate hikes that preceded the bursting of the dot-com bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

She watched a corpulent man beside her pull out a gold coin from a purse on his hip that looked to be near bursting.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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