blast
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"It's not a straight line from a nuclear blast to the front door, like this one."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
After Ohtani hit his 21st homer of the season, Andy Pages hit a tying 419-foot blast to left-center for his 17th homer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
In a joint news conference after the blast, Macron said we must "not let ourselves be destabilised" by such attacks, and reiterated Paris's support for the country.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
As shown by post-Callais developments over the past two months, the ruling’s blast radius will be far and wide.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
Everyone jumped at the sound, and a blast of wind blew the mattress in front of the door down.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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The blasts came after Macron's departure from the building, and moments before Syrian state media announced his arrival at the presidential palace to meet his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Intense events are now much more likely because these temporary blasts of extra heat are happening in an already hotter ocean.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Macron’s office said he was unaffected by the blasts and that he was carrying out his scheduled visit with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Since astronomers first identified them in the early 2000s, they have struggled to explain why these explosions remain intensely bright long after a massive star's iron core collapses and blasts its outer layers into space.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
The moment passes, and it’s just the four of us, surrounded by the rhythm of the sea, the cool blasts of air, the ancient rocks.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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After a surprise layoff by a fintech company five months ago, Abernathy blasted out a bunch of resumes, but that didn’t turn up much.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
While many in the United States joined the president in celebrating the reversal, others blasted its adverse impact on the integrity of the sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Farah's model suggests that some of the material blasted outward by the explosion later fell back toward the newborn magnetar, forming an accretion disk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
Newcastle's Nick Woltemade also was denied by Gill and, despite being given a lifeline with two Paraguay failures, Tah then blasted his attempt over, before defender Jose Canale sealed Paraguay's victory.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The roof has been blasted away, so water pours in when it rains.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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The stifling heat that has been blasting the Midwest will intensify into the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states on Thursday and Friday.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
The impact would have instantly excavated the crater while blasting huge volumes of rock, sediment, and seawater into the atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
Sebastien Leas, a forecaster at France's weather service, likened it to a "vacuum cleaner, drawing in heat and masses of hot air rising from North Africa" and blasting it northward in a violent torrent.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Music blasting from car windows and pets running across the grass add layers of unpredictability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
He limped to the front door, opened it, slicing the room with a beam of moonlight, blasting through the fog of Charlie’s memory, of his many pasts.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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