blow
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Having watched you perform around the L.A. scene for years, seeing you blow up and opening for Gabriel Iglesias and Jo Koy at SoFi Stadium earlier this year was pretty cool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Winds of this strength will blow some trees over, bringing a significant risk of transport disruption and there may also be some power cuts.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
None of this means your annuity is about to blow up.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
It deals another blow to the kingdom's ambitious economic transformation drive.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
“It is a credit to your navigational skills that we did not blow off course.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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A research paper published in Health Affairs, a leading peer-reviewed journal, found that our hospitals blew far more on admin than the hospitals in other rich countries.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
The process was also slowed by a near-catastrophic January 2024 Alaska Airlines flight in which a fuselage panel blew out mid-flight.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
In 2022, when the Bills blew out the Rams in the opener at SoFi Stadium, the Rams were 2-3 en route to a 5-12 finish, the worst Super Bowl hangover in NFL history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Many made massive bets on popular tech names such as Tesla, Alphabet or Palantir—and, as the artificial-intelligence rally blew past record after record, got richer than they ever imagined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
A fierce rush of longing blew through me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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"What ultimately matters is whether Jaguar has built something extraordinary enough to justify blowing up everything it stood for before."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Back then, burn rate measured how much cash a money-losing startup was blowing through each quarter and how many months it had left before it ran out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Madrid rattling keys and blowing whistles to call for measures to curb rising housing costs and make evictions more difficult.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Some of these people were not flagrantly blowing off work.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
At first, it was like listening to wind chimes blowing in the breeze.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Researchers reckoned that 25% of the money paid to U.S. hospitals is blown on administrative costs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
The call was reported not violent by officers, and her campaign claims the situation is being blown out of proportion.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
This season, his cover blown, he continues the hunt while working for the police as a consultant on individual cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
There is a replay system now to fix blown calls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Anya had seen it only in perfect condition, but today it looked as though a storm had blown through.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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