burst
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The diligent crowd occasionally burst into applause or cheered each other on to keep spirits high.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
This short and rapid burst suggests that CRH has an important function during the earliest stages of the healing response.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Households could reduce spending temporarily to rebuild their savings after drawing down their bank accounts earlier in the year to cope with another burst of inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
When I got to Figaro, the last place to look on my list, I burst out crying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
There was a split second of silence, and then Rosa burst out laughing.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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With limited bursts of firepower, Iran is able to make the waterway too risky to cross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The newly observed plasma vortices may offer an important clue to how the Sun stores and releases energy within its magnetic field, including through tiny bursts of radiation called nanoflares.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Seehorn bursts out laughing, which she does often and with great gusto throughout our conversation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
That constant swirling is a driving force behind bursts of energy from the Sun, creating so-called space weather, that can disrupt Earth's power grids and satellites, and could even injure astronauts.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
I slide forward in bursts, then slide a little more with each pull.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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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 could have made more if some of the papers hadn’t bursted and spilt the candy in the road.
From Three Little Women A Story for Girls by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson
Each half of the film reflects the character it follows, the first part frenetic, densely packed and bursting with music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I had long admired her, especially the rollicking and indispensable “Slow Days, Fast Company,” first published in 1977, a charming and insightful series of stories bursting with pluck and sass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Footage broadcast on Thai television showed flames bursting from the venue and people running out as smoke filled the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Most of us had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes. There was a noise, like a tyre bursting," a fellow passenger told Radio Thessaloniki.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Penelope was bursting to know: “And the Hixby’s?”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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