spurt
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Tech firms diverged Thursday with a mixed bag of results for some of the AI sector's big beasts tempering the recent spurt of optimism amid growing anxiety about companies' investment and debt.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
The bottom line is that everyone seems to want to own VIX, as they expect a market downturn and a spurt in volatility.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Plus, ex-Liquid I.V. marketer Stacey Andrade-Wells joins Bobbie to power the formula brand’s next growth spurt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
In recent years, the buildings around the Metropolitan have struggled to keep retail tenants after a spurt of residential conversions of historic buildings starting in the early 2000s brought commerce to the neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Thank God I was done with the last growth spurt.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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Even after growth spurts at Audi and Porsche, the company’s market share in North America for years hadn’t moved above 5%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The Chapter One gatherings quickly taught me how the long lulls broken up by spurts of passion that I once found a drag were actually as stirring as a religious experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The medication, which was first developed 15 years ago, can result in increased height if administered during growth spurts.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
In these environments, black holes experienced brief but intense growth spurts through a process known as 'super Eddington accretion'.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2026
It was darker now, but the flame spurts behind him outlined his face.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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Eyewitnesses described the tanker "swinging around like a compass" as waves crashed over the abandoned ship and black plumes of oil spurted out into the sea.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Treasury yields have spurted higher as they catch up with the main interest rate controlled by the Federal Reserve, which is at its highest level since 2001.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Over the past week, three X-class flares have spurted off from two eruptive sunspot groups.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023
Thus, the Huns were spurted to shift from herders to raiders.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022
But here was death with its dart, having spurted into the house as bold as you please and snapped its chilly fingers.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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"We saw walls collapsing, the floors opening up. And then water and mud began spurting up from underneath the flooring."
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
His paintings of erupting fountains, spurting fireworks and splashing bathers make you feel a cool summer breeze in the middle of a packed fair space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Videos shared overnight show glowing red lava spurting from the volcano's peaks as residents get into cars and buses to flee.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
The ground even opened up, spurting sand out along a zigzagging 100-foot-long stretch of a University of Washington a football field.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
The sound of quick, useless breaths spurting through his nostrils filled the space, but the rustling grew even louder, and he realized now that it couldn’t be bats.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Excerpt from "The Little Mermaid"
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