exploded

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Despite his lack of experience as a civil litigator, McKinney also said he could bring down the city’s litigation costs, which exploded under Feldstein Soto.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Memory prices, which Moore’s Law says should drop 30% a year, have instead exploded upward.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Applications for foreign citizenship have reportedly exploded over the past couple of years, for reasons I hardly need to explain.

From Salon • May 31, 2026

Hours earlier, a rocket being tested by Jeff Bezos’s space company dramatically exploded on a launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., lighting up the skies for miles around Florida’s Space Coast late Thursday.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

Marco suddenly exploded in anger, spit flying all over the place.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook