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burst

[burst] / bɜrst /




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The trailing two-month divergence in March 2000, the month in which that bubble burst, was greater than 40 percentage points — more than four times the current divergence.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

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

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Astronomers have long relied on brief bursts of gamma rays to identify collisions between neutron stars.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 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

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

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

A massive wall of slick, oily scales bursts out of the water.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

"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

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

Even in Nepal, the same region saw flooding last year caused by a glacial lake in Tibet bursting.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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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