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burst

[burst] / bɜrst /




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The company burst onto India's crowded telecom scene in 2016, offering throwaway tariffs that got millions of Indians hooked to the internet.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

By the Belgian Grand Prix, he was so frustrated by a qualifying session that he burst into tears in the media pen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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

Jon Malnekoff’s home borders the golf course, and he said he’s positive the wind burst was a tornado.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

"But—" Rowan burst out, "it was there! A drawing of the Mountain. And words and arrows . . . and a track marked in red, leading to the cloud and above it! It was!"

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

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

"Swimming bursts are high-energy attack behaviors that represent an escalation of aggression towards the stimulus fish without making physical contact," explained Currie.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 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

Elsie bursts out laughing when I ask if it’s better than being a small.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Postal Service truck had slid 50 feet down an embankment, and the “box containing the frankfurters was bursted open and the contents strewn considerably,” Alexander wrote to a U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

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

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

I bursted that comet bat all to pieces and hit a foul.

From Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 by Various

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 protected area Kunagado and his friends have cultivated is bursting with corals and is now home to hundreds of heat-resistant "super corals" that may protect the village from the impacts of rising sea temperatures.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

The streaming bubble burst and hasn’t stopped bursting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

While the house is bursting with artwork that would make most museum curators envious, Herman’s home is surprisingly humble, built on a tight budget from prosaic materials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

It was moist and creamy and absolutely too much for our already bursting stomachs, but it was scrumptious.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall


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