burst
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Others slept in tents and sleeping bags in their living rooms as indoor temperatures dropped, and water pipes would freeze and burst.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
I burst into Columbia University’s health center begging to see a doctor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Garrett burst off the line at the snap and sacked Daniels for a 12-yard loss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
That represents a nearly fivefold difference in deflection velocity, the change in the asteroid's forward speed caused by the burst.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
The commanding officer’s secretary, a red-cheeked man with a duck-like walk, burst in the door.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Some disruption is possible due to bursts of heavy rain.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Over its remarkably long lifetime, Swift's scientific contributions expanded far beyond its original focus on gamma-ray bursts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Nearly a minute elapses before a keyboard figure joins the fray, and even then it takes the form of short, sharp, jazz-tinged bursts within the increasingly layered percussive texture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Burn off anxious energy - take quick bursts of movement, like jumping jacks, to help process adrenaline and cortisol.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Her mouth forms an O. Then she buries her face in her hands and bursts into tears.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Postal Service truck had slid 50 feet down an embankment, and the “box containing the frankfurters was bursted open and the contents strewn considerably,” Alexander wrote to a U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
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
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
Leipzig, bursting like Boston with young people, has become a German tech hub, it too could have used a whirl with democratic AI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
"I feel so happy!" said 43-year-old Anna Zanatta in Sao Paulo before bursting into tears of joy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Some radiators have a snowflake symbol on the valve that activates the frost protection setting, meaning that if the room gets very cold, the radiator warms slightly to stop the pipes from bursting.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
That’s why any major pullback or bear market in stocks “will rock the economy,” she said, pointing to the 2001 recession that followed the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
"Where did you go yesterday?" asked Specimen, bursting into the room.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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