erupt
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Photos showed dancing under disco balls, a white cake topped with figurines of a bride and groom and Donald Trump Jr. holding his new wife in his arms as fireworks erupt in the background.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It leaves vegetation dead, dry and needing just a small spark to erupt into flame.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
It isn’t the sin that makes Rowan erupt but Olivia’s failure to live by the most important lesson he’s ever imparted.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
The discovery does not mean that Kikai is about to erupt.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The monkeys’ shrieks were starting to sound like hysterical laughter, getting louder and louder like a volcano about to erupt.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
He then erupts in flames twice his height, dark smoke billowing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
"The atmosphere is amazing. Every single time a team wins the whole stadium erupts, and it's just amazing."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
In this traditional view, low-density magma gradually accumulates within the crust, increasing pressure until the surrounding rock fractures, collapses, and ultimately erupts.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
And as for the showstopping pelican, the frog erupts out of its beak right on cue, a moment that indeed inspires a round of laughter and childlike awe.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Sure enough, the skin on her arm erupts into an ugly rash.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Message boards erupted, and Neal, the YouTuber who regularly recapped “Bachelor” episodes on his show, dug into the paternity fray.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The room erupted in laughter, but he wasn’t finished.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Instead of lingering for weeks, it traveled upward and erupted within a matter of hours.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
A furore erupted this month after a researcher publicly resigned from Anthropic over fears that the technology could escape human control.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Hearing those words, the boys and girls erupted into cheers.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
US DJ Khaled had a brief moment on stage while Jay-Z changed, but it was the appearance of London-born rapper Giggs which got the crowd erupting.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Plus, we look at new fronts erupting in the Iran war, and a daring mission to recover American POWs from the ocean floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The towering volcano on the Italian island of Sicily is the most active in Europe, erupting several times a year, yet scientists have never fully understood how it formed.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
A "de-confliction cell", between the parties and the Lebanese authorities has also been agreed to prevent fighting from erupting again, they said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“It is. Underground. The mountain is on fire under our feet. Like before. When it erupted. My mother and I—” His voice caught, his grief erupting suddenly.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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