burst
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The initial burst also illustrates how a relatively small number of high-profile accounts can set the agenda for a much larger audience.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
And he delivered a superb try-saving tackle on Ponga during the first-half before scoring a with a sensational 60-metre burst to lay the platform for the Kangaroos' last-gasp victory.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Around the time she graduated in 2021, the property bubble burst.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The S&P Cotality Case-Shiller National Home Index, the benchmark for home prices, fell a third in real terms in the years after the bubble burst and is still below the peak.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
"You cannot return to Rin alone now, Allun," she burst out at last.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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But most importantly, in Musk’s eyes, at least, the car can be equipped with SpaceX-designed gas thrusters that boost acceleration and, yes, produce bursts of flight.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
These rapid bursts are particularly important because they indicate that an encounter is escalating toward an attack, even when the fish cannot make physical contact.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 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
His role in the side tends to involve 10-minute bursts, rather than playing for the duration of matches.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The final bell rings, and the entire school bursts at the seams.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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Postal Service truck had slid 50 feet down an embankment, and the “box containing the frankfurters was bursted open and the contents strewn considerably,” Alexander wrote to a U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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
He had often heard the story of the bursted mine sale.
From The Desert Fiddler by William H. (William Henry) Hamby
That’s why any major pullback or bear market in stocks “will rock the economy,” she said, pointing to the 2001 recession that followed the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 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
Its track record just so happens to include both the global financial crisis and the bursting of the internet bubble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
“Sit,” said Rafi Edelman before turning to a large bookcase, positively bursting with books, that dominated one wall.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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