burst
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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
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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
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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
“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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