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burst

[burst] / bɜrst /




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But for millions like me, the robot Olympics burst into our feeds as a glorious cornucopia of slapstick comedy.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

The rain is expected to continue into Sunday, raising fears that more canals could burst their banks.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

During an interview with MarketWatch, Wilhelm and Gogia looked through the AI build-out cycle and explained how investors might eventually see warnings that the growth burst is ending.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

There was the failed search engine, the closed charity, the cheap furniture line and the mortgage company launched right before the housing bubble burst.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

The word burst out of me, weighted with bitterness.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

While the U.S. stock market has sometimes stumbled this year after Treasury yields’ sudden bursts higher, Kourkafas sees economic growth and a rotation into tech helping the S&P 500 digest higher rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Before the arrival of wind and rain, though, some bursts of warmth will lift temperatures above average, possibly reaching the low-20s Celsius at times in south-east England.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Its activity shifted back toward a more typical pattern of Strombolian eruptions, which involve periodic bursts of ash and other volcanic material.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The club music that accompanies Claire’s bodybuilder retinue is funny the first time; less so on subsequent bursts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

It seemingly had driven the snow clouds from us, for, with only occasional bursts, the snow fell.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Previously, I’d been seduced by demonstrative courtship, but Mark wasn’t effusive, and when someone bursted into laughter with “She’s hysterical!” at one of my jokes, Mark looked bewildered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

“Cordage has collapsed like a bursted meteor,” reported the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, “and the other industrials have all of them shared to a considerable extent in the decline.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

It bursted out of TikTok and into the mainstream last month, when Shakira performed the “Jiggle Jiggle” dance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

Minnesota bursted out to a 23-0 lead at halftime as Pittsburgh struggled on offense and with run defense.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

I had heard of people coming down in bursted balloons, but I was the first who had ever gone up in one.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

Already green shoots of bracken are bursting through the blackened earth and that will crowd out the traditional heather, bilberry and cowberry.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Meanwhile, actor and artist RiRia has a lifelong devotion to punk fashion, curating a Hysteric Glamour wardrobe bursting with color, energy and attitude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Thirty years after bursting onto the video game scene, Lara Croft returns in a new "Tomb Raider" that plays up the pistol-wielding architect's "complicated" character.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Wars, the bursting of the dot-com bubble and tax cuts sent budgets off course in the early 2000s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

It was bursting with things for sale: piled on shelves, tied to the wall, hanging from the ceiling in baskets and hammocks.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell




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