explosion
Example Sentences
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School districts have seen an explosion in special education costs in recent years, forcing them to encroach on their general funds.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
The Ediacaran period occurred before the Cambrian explosion, a major evolutionary turning point when rising oxygen levels helped complex organisms diversify rapidly across Earth's oceans.
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
And in an age when many steamboats, cheaply built and poorly maintained, did, in the words of one contemporary, “a wholesale business in human slaughter,” Vanderbilt never lost a ship to fire, explosion or shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
"It is quick, but it's high octane gasoline, and so a lot of them got burnt and it was an explosion."
From BBC • May 9, 2026
The bounding dog greeted him with an explosion of enthusiasm that almost knocked the box out of his hand.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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