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Both Messi and Ronaldo have benefited from how they play as well, walking rather running for long stretches of the game to conserve energy for the burst they need to lose a defender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The situation has burst into a brawl involving the city’s most powerful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Joseph Adinolfi explained how the stock market’s double bubble might burst.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Extreme weather has already wreaked havoc on southern and central China this week, with storms leaving at least 39 dead and causing dozens of rivers to overflow and a reservoir dam to burst.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
There was a split second of silence, and then Rosa burst out laughing.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Above-average temperatures are expected for each month of July and August, and "significant bursts" of heat are expected in the UK, and across Europe.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Magnetars are also believed to generate mysterious fast radio bursts.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
“Then the fantasy of that life bursts at the end of this scene, when her parents tell her they’re moving away. It felt the most on theme.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
“You’re breaking up those long bursts of sitting,” he says.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
Turkey Vulture began to whistle in high, short bursts, and then he made some cute peeping noises.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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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
"Nicodemus," said Flan. as soon as the Cashier made his appearance, "we have come to make a run upon the bank:—they say you've bursted your biler."
From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton
Investors were watching the results especially closely after several sharp sell-offs in the tech sector over fears the AI bubble might be approaching its bursting point.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
But Carr did recall Cusack bursting into tears when she went to the wrong training ground.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Well, the show stopped in Miami, Vinicius Jr bursting into the party, stopping the music and telling everybody to get to their beds.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The second half of the decade vindicated his instincts—although even hotter economic conditions soon prompted Greenspan rate hikes that preceded the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
In contrast, Fernlight Forest, across the road, was bursting with life, merry with birdsong and the crunch of paws in the underbrush.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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