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burst

[burst] / bɜrst /




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Newly hatched turtles then burst from the sand together and shuffle furiously to the sea, guided by moonlight reflecting off the water and fueled by a temporary external yolk sac.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

While they were being treated for their injuries, ICE agents burst in and arrested them.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Engineers from Odin Energetics placed the explosive material on pedestals and remotely detonated them with an echoing bang, emitting a quick burst of flames followed by clouds of smoke.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The months of work on the deal burst into public view on Aug. 28 with a Trump announcement on Truth Social.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The light in his chest burst into a flame with joy, then it sputtered.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

This marks the beginning of Phase 5, when pieces separate from the main body and can produce repeated bursts of light.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Nearly a minute elapses before a keyboard figure joins the fray, and even then it takes the form of short, sharp, jazz-tinged bursts within the increasingly layered percussive texture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

But most importantly, in Musk’s eyes, at least, the car can be equipped with SpaceX-designed gas thrusters that boost acceleration and, yes, produce bursts of flight.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Both maximum and minimum temperatures were consistently above normal with only very short-lived bursts of heat, falling short of any official heatwave.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Voxy bursts out from his watch station at the door.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Previously, I’d been seduced by demonstrative courtship, but Mark wasn’t effusive, and when someone bursted into laughter with “She’s hysterical!” at one of my jokes, Mark looked bewildered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

“Cordage has collapsed like a bursted meteor,” reported the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, “and the other industrials have all of them shared to a considerable extent in the decline.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

It bursted out of TikTok and into the mainstream last month, when Shakira performed the “Jiggle Jiggle” dance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

Minnesota bursted out to a 23-0 lead at halftime as Pittsburgh struggled on offense and with run defense.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

Bursted Flues and Tubes.—These are usually plugged by tapering a piece of pine wood and driving it into the bursted tube by means of an iron bar.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

In a nod to Citrini Research’s AI doomsday report that went viral at the start of the year, he laid out a multiyear fictional look at the before and after of that bubble bursting.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The bursting of a real estate bubble sparked the "collapse" of construction and "the destruction of a million jobs" in the sector, Galindo told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The streaming bubble burst and hasn’t stopped bursting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Shortly after its release, it went viral on Instagram reels and TikTok as creators used the song in a trend where they’d act fatigued before bursting into motion on beat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Alvarez saw black clusters of antiaircraft flak bursting all around his plane.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin


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