burst
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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
The burst of new workers in September suggests Americans feel more confident that if they look for work, they can find it at a wage worth the effort.
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
Its gamma-ray burst lasted only about half a second.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
"But in Rin we all learn to swim," Rowan burst out.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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Short gamma-ray bursts have traditionally been the main electromagnetic signal associated with neutron star mergers.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 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 potential for conflict bursts into the open at a seaside home that has been in Ye-ji’s husband’s family for years, where the group has decamped for a supposedly restorative holiday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The room bursts into a mixture of cheers and groans.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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
“That is, if you can class a bursted tire as a downfall.”
From Marjorie Dean College Junior by Pauline Lester
"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
Shortly after its release, it went viral on Instagram reels and TikTok as creators used the song in a trend where they’d act fatigued before bursting into motion on beat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Economists widely speculate that even the current giants are not all likely to survive and that some kind of "levelling" is coming – also known as a bursting bubble.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Scientists say that similar to the bursting of lakes formed by retreating glaciers, these collapses reflect a complex intersection of causes, including the effects of climate change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The thick, greasy smoke from the blubber stove turned his face black and regularly sent him bursting outside coughing and choking, but he remained cheerful.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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