blow
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The community suffered another blow the following month with the death of Sandy Steers, the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit behind the livestream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Scottish Green Party co-leader, Gillian Mackay, said the move was another "devastating blow" for the area.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
"But that person hasn't yet revealed themselves as far as I'm aware. Nobody is going to blow anything up without a clear plan to put something in its place."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
For many, just replacing the phone is a major financial blow.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Though we were grateful to the doctor for the advance warning, learning that Jimmie was going to pass away was a devastating blow to both of us.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
Scanlon's posts about her decision to ditch the continuous manicure blew up on Substack and Instagram earlier this year.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Blue Origin has conducted three missions with the rocket so far, but hasn’t flown since a vehicle blew up on a Florida launchpad in May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind…,” she wrote on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Not long after, she released the official music video for the song, which blew up almost as soon as it landed on YouTube.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
At first the fire in the birch-bark roll refused to wake up, even when he blew on it coaxingly, and Renn fed it morsels of tinder warmed in her hands.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Madrid rattling keys and blowing whistles to call for measures to curb rising housing costs and make evictions more difficult.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
There is a “trash fence,” a 4-foot-high, 9.2-mile-long orange plastic barrier, according to SF Gate, that blocks the trash from blowing away in the desert.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
There’s plenty of stuff blowing up in director Leslie Greif’s eight-part thriller, an adaptation of ex-CIA analyst John Nixon’s memoir, “Debriefing the President.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Verstappen arrives and briefly adjusts the fan blowing in our direction.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The humid air rushes past my face as I fly up, blowing the tears away from the corners of my eyes.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Unavoidably the text has been chopped and channeled, with some swapping of parts, bits of narration screwed into dialogue and events described in a paragraph blown out into scenes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Her home of salvaged wood was still standing after the storm but the tin roofs had been blown off the kitchen and bedroom.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Since Aug. 28, U.S. forces have blown up at least eight Ecuadorean fishing vessels originating in Manta, a port city of around 300,000 people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
He said he was blown away by the chromatographic results Muller obtained.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
We run through the day along the edge of the beach, running on the ice itself because the wind has blown all the snow off the beach sand.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
