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Duke, the 2026 top overall seed, has a score of 38.90—meaning the Blue Devils would be expected to blow out a team by nearly 39 points over 100 possessions.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

That’s because spreads tend to quickly blow out in a crisis, as they did in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic that began in 2020.

From MarketWatch Feb. 3, 2026

So I decided to blow out the tenets of my current kitchen triage — salt, acid, oregano — into a full-blown meal.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2025

Studying CMEs – massive fireballs that blow out of the Sun’s outermost corona layer – is one of the most important scientific objectives of India’s maiden solar mission.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2024

Mami sets the cake down in front of me so I can make a wish before I blow out the candles.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez




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