spurt
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Joeli Brearley, founder of the Pregnant The Screwed campaign group and the parent support programme Growth Spurt, says there is "a tussle between parents and providers" who are both struggling.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2025
A survey by Growth Spurt and Women in Data suggests that many parents are paying extra consumable fees of £15 a day.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2025
A version of this article appears in print on March 18, 2014, on page D3 of the with the headline: A Growth Spurt at 1,500 Years Old .
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2014
Spurt, spurt, spurt of flame on the ground!
From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Bewsher, Paul
First came the Spurt, of Tromsö, a Norwegian tramp of dissolute and chastened appearance, whose deliberate, plodding gait and general air of senility belied her name, or at any rate the English meaning of it.
From Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories by Dorling, H. Taprell (Henry Taprell)
Vocabulary lists containing spurt
Excerpt from "The Little Mermaid"
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 1
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 1
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