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burst

[burst] / bɜrst /




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Traditional studios and TV networks have shed tens of thousands of workers in recent years after the streaming bubble burst and twin labor strikes paused projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

To anybody with attachment to news as actual events, America’s 12-cylinder capitalism has been tackling the AI agent misalignment problem in a burst of energy second only to its creation of data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"I would wake up in the night vomiting and I was always worried that maybe my appendix had burst or I had a kidney infection or something like that," she recalled.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The laser creates a small burst of plasma, and the spectrum of that plasma reveals the chemical makeup of the rock.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Renn burst out laughing, spraying water all over the ice.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

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

Due to its location at the foothills of the Theban mountain, monuments in this area are extremely vulnerable to flash flooding from intense bursts of rain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

The potential for conflict bursts into the open at a seaside home that has been in Ye-ji’s husband’s family for years, where the group has decamped for a supposedly restorative holiday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Her face bursts out into a grin as she watches me coming, but I can see that mean glint in her eyes, too.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

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

The skins of wine were bursted; but the contents had been apparently appreciated, for none remained in the hollows of the rocks.

From The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt by J. R. (John Reinhard) Weguelin

"However, if the remnant of the collision is a magnetar, it could keep bursting for longer," said Prof. Troja, who is part of the Einstein Probe European collaboration and co-corresponding author of the paper.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

It's a similar story across the country: High Streets, once bursting with shops, hit first by the rise of out-of-town retail centres and then by online commerce.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Shortly after its release, it went viral on Instagram reels and TikTok as creators used the song in a trend where they’d act fatigued before bursting into motion on beat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 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

Fact: Just like the Fourth of July fireworks, I was bursting with energy.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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