explosion

Example Sentences

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But experts and environmentalists warn this explosion in mining permits is endangering water resources and the economies of rural areas.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

School districts have seen an explosion in special education costs in recent years, forcing them to encroach on their general funds.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

The findings provide scientists with a clearer picture of the world before the Cambrian explosion and may help researchers better understand the environmental conditions that paved the way for the rise of complex animal life.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

And in an age when many steamboats, cheaply built and poorly maintained, did, in the words of one contemporary, “a wholesale business in human slaughter,” Vanderbilt never lost a ship to fire, explosion or shipwreck.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Mom and Jess and the twins joined him in a booth, and he explained that what they’d seen and heard from their classroom earlier was called a steam explosion.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis