explode
Example Sentences
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Somatic workout classes, characterized by minuscule clenches and releases, have exploded in popularity as an antidote to high-intensity exercise.
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.
At last the pent-up tension exploded: Cocky burst into spasms of high hysterical laughter.
From Literature
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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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.