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burst

[burst] / bɜrst /




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Fiji, playing with rising confidence, responded when prop Luke Tagi burst over, but Isoa Nasilasila was adjudged to have knocked the ball in the away side's line-out.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Nvidia was founded in 1993 and went public in 1999, a year before the dot-com bubble burst.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

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

The new system overcomes that obstacle, allowing scientists to study realistic asteroid shapes while maintaining the precision needed to calculate their response to an X-ray burst.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

Clare burst into the cottage, flinching as he did.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Researchers at Semmelweis University have found that intense physical activity involving sudden bursts of movement, quick changes in direction, and sharp turns appears especially effective at stimulating new bone formation.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

When the hosts were struggling to break down the Japan defence, Rees-Zammit popped up with powerful bursts, producing five of Wales' 16 line-breaks, making 121 metres and beating 13 defenders.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Swift was originally developed to investigate gamma-ray bursts, extraordinarily powerful flashes of high-energy radiation associated with some of the most extreme events in the cosmos.

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

Lara’s polite grin bursts into a big, toothy smile as she jogs up the few steps to the stage where Chief Crowe swallows her in a big hug.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

It melted, streaming off in all directions, like the sweep of water from a bursted dam.

From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory

The booster was diverted to the ocean, bursting into flames just above the sea.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

His music sometimes reminds me of a multitude of wheels within one encompassing wheel—a sort of kaleidoscopic stasis that is actually bursting with variety and activity within.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

Is that gushing sound from a bubble bursting?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

“They don’t have sad endings, but they have sad parts,” said Cat, thinking of the drawings of book-Chicken that showed him bursting into tears or erupting in anger.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn


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