blast
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Several survivors told local media they heard a blast shortly before the vessel rolled, with police detaining the captain and more than a dozen others.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Now O’Donnell is back behind a network television desk and, by all appearances, is having a blast.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
I sent the editor a six-text blast explaining myself, as if I were getting ready for my own criminal trial.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
If anything, Grande is having a blast - teetering around in perilous heels, blowing kisses to the audience and embracing the physical and vocal demands of her show.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Dan, more dressed in jeans, a T-shirt, and socks, barely made it ten feet to the backside of a different fir before the blast hit.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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These stellar blasts spread large quantities of elements such as carbon, oxygen and iron into the surrounding gas.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
In this period before Rosh Hashana, the daily shofar blasts are supposed to get Jews thinking about what they have done wrong in the past year and how they could be better in the next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
Since the pandemic, the organization has sent out email and text blasts to the community offering boxes of food — only 150 boxes are available each week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
As we cross through the last alleyways and approach the port, we hear the distant blasts of fireworks coming from Istanbul.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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On Sunday, a rescue team rappelled over a hole blasted into a section of the tunnel and called out but received no response from inside, the prime minister’s office said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
While S301 became trapped in the black hole's gravity, its partner star was blasted out with such force it likely left the galaxy entirely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The collision blasted this weathered material from as deep as 1.5 feet beneath the lunar surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
The rocket that blasted from Florida last January was carrying two lunar landers into space.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
I blasted through, and there was the Hillside linebacker.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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"At first it was the blasting and the tremors from underground, and we would feel our flat shake," 45-year-old Voneen Trompeter told AFP in Roodepoort, northwest of central Johannesburg.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
John does all that too, on top of his parents blasting all fear out of him while rearing him to expect the universe to be unforgiving.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
“I imagine there’s some sort of glitch or bug that’s blasting all your followers when you use similar captions,” they surmised.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Those blasting the decision to prosecute Flores include L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
One car has my voice blasting out of it.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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