explode
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The news comes at a time when the buzzword “longevity” has become synonymous with wellness, and as the U.S. centenarian population is expected to explode over the next few decades.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
"The studio was often church-like and I would sit in silence, waiting for your ideas to explode out of your keyboard or your guitar and then I would run with them," she wrote.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
"We never expected that a cell could just explode like a bomb and kill the cells surrounding it," said senior author Bo Wang, associate professor of bioengineering in the schools of Engineering and Medicine.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
"There are days when you wake up and you just want to explode," he says.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Fact: Grapes don’t always explode with scientific reliability.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Both companies are major manufacturers of semiconductors and computer hardware, and earnings for those companies have skyrocketed as demand for memory chips explodes.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
In one scenario, a rapidly spinning massive star explodes and splits into two smaller neutron stars through a process called fission.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026
After just two minutes, it explodes in a burst of sound that leads directly to the hectic “In the Blink of an Eye.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
The food fight that explodes in the play’s third movement is conducted with comestibles so rubbery they might be part of a clown show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Well, actually the hospital full of zombies in the movie explodes, but since I’m not paying attention, it scares me so much that I scream.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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The mochi balls of doughy rice filled with ice-cream exploded on TikTok, but its apparent overnight success was more than a decade in the making.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
As home prices exploded over the last few years, so have home values — and, in turn, property-tax bills.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Fox’s coverage pivoted from hard fouls to trans panic, Clark got dragged into a fight she has spent three years trying to avoid and Cunningham’s follower count exploded.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Wind-driven flames and dry hydrants drew engines from across the region, leaving first responders stretched thin when the Eaton fire exploded above Altadena hours later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Black smoke surfaced in patches around the theater as firecrackers exploded.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Solar is exploding in the Central Valley as drought-stressed farmers look to alternatives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Telecom companies assumed internet traffic would continue exploding, so they raced to build nationwide and transoceanic fiber networks before the customers and revenue were there.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Stanford researchers have identified a previously unknown immune cell that destroys nearby cells by exploding.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
During the fire, blasts were heard, initially mistaken for exploding gas cylinders, but they may have been these shells, according to fire commander Thomas Mimiague.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
And yet, standing opposite her sister, she could think of nothing to say that would stop her sister from exploding.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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