explode

Example Sentences

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Voting by mail has exploded in popularity and it takes longer to count those ballots, as many don’t arrive until after election day.

From Los Angeles Times

Demand for OpenAI’s Codex exploded this winter when the company introduced its latest model, which has far superior coding abilities than its predecessors.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Literature

That affects products with DDR4 memory chips—the previous generation of random-access memory—which are exploding in price due to high demand and low supply.

From Barron's

Speaking on Italy's Radio 24, the secretary of Italy's Council of Ministers, Alfredo Mantovano, said the risks from the tanker were "enormous" and warned that it could "explode at any moment".

From BBC