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But in the meantime, the plant formerly known as Ilva has been ordered to shut off its blast furnaces by October 28 due to the presence of asbestos and illegal levels of fine airborne particles.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

From the other side of the living room, he heard a blast.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

While blast furnaces use coal-based fuel and are a major source of industrial CO2 emissions, electric arc furnaces melt recycled steel, resulting in lower carbon emissions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

When munitions are detonated underwater, the blast can spread contaminants through the surrounding environment.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

The whole world shuddered and shook with every blast.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

The president is a pop-culture fanatic; he blasts Broadway showtunes at his rallies and was tweetstorming about Kristen Stewart a few years before becoming the leader of the free world.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

That amount of energy is comparable to the output of several billion supernova explosions, the powerful blasts produced when certain stars reach the ends of their lives.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

California’s top prosecutor blasts Paramount-Warner Bros. conduct as ‘amateur hour.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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

He and his friends, Hazel and Frank, were standing in the middle of a fountain as Percy repelled the angry Romans with blasts of water.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Because the volcano erupted beneath the ocean, it blasted enormous quantities of salty seawater upward along with volcanic ash.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

On Sunday, a rescue team rappelled over a hole blasted into a section of the tunnel and called out but received no response from inside, the prime minister’s office said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

A federal judge blasted KTLA-TV Channel 5’s owner, the Texas-based Nexstar Media Group, on Thursday for violating a court order and for failing to disclose key information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Wish that this blasted war hadn’t turned us all into liars and sneaks.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

“Good morning, your honor,” Navarrete said, her voice barely audible over the air conditioning blasting in her office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Nepali rescue teams are digging, drilling and blasting through debris in a race against time in treacherous conditions to free around 100 hydropower workers believed trapped in multiple tunnels.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

John does all that too, on top of his parents blasting all fear out of him while rearing him to expect the universe to be unforgiving.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

The keening chorus is anchored by Roger Troutman, who enjoyed a series of 1980s hits with sprays of talk-box-warped vocals, while the blasting beat was produced by Dr. Dre, the chief architect of G-funk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

There’s the air conditioner for starters—first too cold and then not cold enough and then noisy and blasting.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti