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burst

[burst] / bɜrst /




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This short and rapid burst suggests that CRH has an important function during the earliest stages of the healing response.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

Households could reduce spending temporarily to rebuild their savings after drawing down their bank accounts earlier in the year to cope with another burst of inflation.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Did that give you a burst of inspiration for new music because you became more aware of yourself?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Ocasio-Cortez, widely known by her initials AOC, burst onto the national political scene with an upset congressional victory in 2018 and rapidly became a leading voice of the Democratic Party's left wing.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

I get enough air then, but the cold raw air freezes the sides of my throat and blood vessels burst and my throat generates mucus and soon I am choking on it.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

But it ends with a blooper shot where Burnham fumbles to catch the helmet and bursts out laughing.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Thiago has the profile of a forward who can deliver in bursts, particularly against weaker opposition, and Brentford are likely to continue looking for him regularly inside the penalty area.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Of course, none of those businesses would fare well if the AI bubble bursts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

His calculations indicate that uneven bursts of escaping material can repeatedly push a dying star in different directions, giving it thousands of small kicks before the white dwarf fully forms.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

The dirt just in front of my snout bursts into dust and pebbles.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Previously, I’d been seduced by demonstrative courtship, but Mark wasn’t effusive, and when someone bursted into laughter with “She’s hysterical!” at one of my jokes, Mark looked bewildered.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 21, 2025

“Cordage has collapsed like a bursted meteor,” reported the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, “and the other industrials have all of them shared to a considerable extent in the decline.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2024

It bursted out of TikTok and into the mainstream last month, when Shakira performed the “Jiggle Jiggle” dance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2022

Minnesota bursted out to a 23-0 lead at halftime as Pittsburgh struggled on offense and with run defense.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2021

I dressed as hastily as I was able, but just as I was putting on the finishing touches to my costume my white tie bursted.

From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott

A passenger had been using a battery pack during the flight, and it had overheated before bursting into flames with a seat catching fire.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

I had long admired her, especially the rollicking and indispensable “Slow Days, Fast Company,” first published in 1977, a charming and insightful series of stories bursting with pluck and sass.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

"Most of us had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes. There was a noise, like a tyre bursting," a fellow passenger told Radio Thessaloniki.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

Fears that a bubble was bursting in chip stocks were alleviated by reports of robust demand for SK Hynix’s new American depositary receipts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

It must be who we’re facing today, because our whole team is bursting with nervous energy.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée




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