explosive
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Before this year, explosive growth in private equity and private credit and the high management fees that came with it had put Blackstone and its peers ahead of rivals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Their idea involves the explosive death of a rare type of black hole known as a "quasi-extremal primordial black hole."
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026
"Our units found an explosive of devastating power," Vucic said in a post on Instagram.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
While growth isn’t explosive, the company is integrating artificial-intelligence agents and has the data needed to continue improving that technology, Tillman added.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
At 7:12 a.m. on February 21, 1916, an explosive shell fired from a German long-barreled gun nearly twenty miles away smashed into the thousand-year-old cathedral of Verdun.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing explosive
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