outburst
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A 70-point scoring outburst last week in which QB Gerald Torres threw five TD passes vs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Slugger Cal Raleigh followed his 60-home run outburst by hitting under .200.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
In 2023, a glacial lake outburst flood in Sikkim killed at least 70 people and caused widespread damage to roads, bridges and hydropower projects.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
His 32 home runs during that stretch, including a five-homer outburst in the span of two days last weekend, are eight more than any other player.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Håkon looked up at her, eyebrows up, questioning her outburst.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Amatya, the company’s acting chief executive, said the project was designed to survive intense, low-probability floods, but not glacial lake outbursts and catastrophic debris flows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
As permafrost degrades, glacial lake outbursts and rock-ice avalanches are expected to increase, producing faster, debris-laden floods that are harder to forecast.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But where once these kinds of outbursts would have made waves, they now seem to ripple at best.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Aurore Berge, minister against discrimination, also denounced the "repeated racist outbursts".
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
Fortunately, the outbursts are sometimes held in check by the “soup eaters,” the people from the office who come up to have a cup of soup for lunch.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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