erupted
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In 1961, for instance, a riot erupted at the merry-go-round when police officers alleged a 17-year-old Black rider failed to pay for his admission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
A huge cheer erupted as a senior teacher unlocked the hulking front door and poked her head out into the street.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The crisis erupted when several funds were unable to satisfy investor redemption demands.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Shalini Dinesh, who lives in Austin, had already been an aficionado of Anthropic’s Claude when all the Meta Muse fanfare erupted online.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Here there was not even a common language and among exhausted, ill-fed people, quarrels erupted constantly.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
