blast
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Now O’Donnell is back behind a network television desk and, by all appearances, is having a blast.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
I sent the editor a six-text blast explaining myself, as if I were getting ready for my own criminal trial.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Energy-production facilities and the site’s blast furnace were damaged, and production processes have been partially halted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
It was traveling along the line of sight at more than 6,000 kilometers per second, indicating that a densely bound structure may have survived the initial blast and was now moving rapidly toward us.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Chicken pushed open the bakery door, releasing a blast of warm, sweet air.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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"Think of it as a shower head that blasts the sauce in 1.5 seconds," says Sharma.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In this period before Rosh Hashana, the daily shofar blasts are supposed to get Jews thinking about what they have done wrong in the past year and how they could be better in the next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Syrian officials said they had captured an Islamic State-linked cell responsible for the blasts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Since the pandemic, the organization has sent out email and text blasts to the community offering boxes of food — only 150 boxes are available each week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
A Redbone song blasts so loud the whole rez can jam along.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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China's foreign and defence ministers were in Jakarta Friday for talks with their Indonesian counterparts to seek greater political and military cooperation days after a joint navy drill Taiwan blasted as a "provocation".
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
It was Herrington's penalty - blasted against the crossbar - that ultimately eliminated Australia from the tournament in their last-32 shootout defeat by Egypt.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
A more speculative possibility is that the material comes from a third member of the system that is being blasted by the fast wind of particles and X-ray radiation generated by the feeding black hole.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The intro gets blasted at sporting events to raise energy or when something good happens, and it never fails to rally a crowd.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
They cowered underneath the trees, down in the cooler dirt, as hot air blasted all around them.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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“I imagine there’s some sort of glitch or bug that’s blasting all your followers when you use similar captions,” they surmised.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
His cheering friends were already outside blasting music and snapping and filming this much-loved Nigerian "signing-out" ritual.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Those blasting the decision to prosecute Flores include L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
With black smoke belching high into the sky, Lobga staggers some 90 seconds before collapsing in flames and a U.N. security guard rushes over blasting an extinguisher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
I inserted the prongs into the wall, and the object sent hot air blasting into my face!
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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