blast
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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
On Monday, his three-run blast put the Dodgers up 5-0 in the third.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
It was traveling along the line of sight at more than 6,000 kilometers per second, indicating that a densely bound structure may have survived the initial blast and was now moving rapidly toward us.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Phineas will tamp the sand tight to bottle up the explosion, channeling the blast downward into the rock to shatter it.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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The ship was rocked by explosions, a maritime security firm told AFP, but the cause of the blasts is unclear.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
However, it retains large operations in the South Bay city and blasts off regularly from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
He’d seen the TV commercials for the new sets, powered by “smart bricks” that light up when laser blasts are fired and emit a chorus of zooming spacecraft engine sounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Intense events are now much more likely because these temporary blasts of extra heat are happening in an already hotter ocean.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Music blasts around us, folks show off their cars.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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China's foreign and defence ministers were in Jakarta Friday for talks with their Indonesian counterparts to seek greater political and military cooperation days after a joint navy drill Taiwan blasted as a "provocation".
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Gonzales-Torres blasted Gomez in a statement to The Times after news of the investigation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The intro gets blasted at sporting events to raise energy or when something good happens, and it never fails to rally a crowd.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
The rocket blasted off from Florida in January last year, carrying two lunar landers into space.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Strings of boys and girls walked in and out the building, talking, laughing, and swaying to the music that blasted through the entrance door.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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“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
Southern California residents blasting air conditioning to get through the summer heat waves will get some relief this month, though not from the 100-degree temperatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The keening chorus is anchored by Roger Troutman, who enjoyed a series of 1980s hits with sprays of talk-box-warped vocals, while the blasting beat was produced by Dr. Dre, the chief architect of G-funk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Too many times, she said, residents of a nearby homeless encampment have partied late into the night — sometimes yelling, sometimes blasting music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
There’s the air conditioner for starters—first too cold and then not cold enough and then noisy and blasting.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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