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burst

[burst] / bɜrst /




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The NBC4 crash marks the most serious incident involving an L.A. news chopper crew since 2000, when a Fox 11 helicopter covering the Academy Awards crashed and burst into flames at Van Nuys Airport.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

In March 2000, as the bubble burst, shares of companies in the business of transmitting data, or networking, plummeted too.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

The devices burst into the public consciousness in April at “Nerd Nite,” a local gathering touted as an opportunity to discuss “random stuff while drinking.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Monday will bring a short-lived burst of warmth and sunshine before temperatures drop to levels more typical for September later in the week.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

At last the pent-up tension exploded: Cocky burst into spasms of high hysterical laughter.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Like bursts of bright color, the scenes of this original novel must be appreciated in the moment.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The potential for conflict bursts into the open at a seaside home that has been in Ye-ji’s husband’s family for years, where the group has decamped for a supposedly restorative holiday.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

Extreme rainfall is intensifying: the region is warming faster than the global average, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, and the monsoon is delivering more rain in fewer, heavier bursts, say experts.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Hardware depreciates and demand comes in bursts, so a bought machine sits idle between them, as the price of processing falls every year.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

At dinner, which begins promptly at midnight, each course is styled in black or white but bursts with color once pierced with forks or spoons, revealing layer upon layer of flavors.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

“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

The first guns made for her all bursted, but others were made, which answered better.”

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston

Its track record just so happens to include both the global financial crisis and the bursting of the internet bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Thirty years after bursting onto the video game scene, Lara Croft returns in a new "Tomb Raider" that plays up the pistol-wielding architect's "complicated" character.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

More recently, the S&P 500 suffered through a lost decade during the 2000s, hurt by the one-two punch of the dot-com bubble bursting, and, later, the 2008 financial crisis.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Hunter Bell expertly controlled the women's 1500m final before bursting clear to continue her golden year by adding to world indoor and Commonwealth glory.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The front parking lot was full to bursting.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles




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