blow out
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Duke, the 2026 top overall seed, has a score of 38.90—meaning the Blue Devils would be expected to blow out a team by nearly 39 points over 100 possessions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
That’s because spreads tend to quickly blow out in a crisis, as they did in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic that began in 2020.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026
At El Atacor #1, Perkins carefully placed the extra-long candles along each tier of the cake and lit them up for Escoto to blow out.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
So I decided to blow out the tenets of my current kitchen triage — salt, acid, oregano — into a full-blown meal.
From Salon • Aug. 26, 2025
The seismologists resolutely based their conclusions on the behavior of Hawaiian volcanoes, which don’t blow out sideways.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
