spurt
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The bottom line is that everyone seems to want to own VIX, as they expect a market downturn and a spurt in volatility.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
She explained: "It is the time when families see the increase in cost because all of a sudden their son's had a growth spurt or their daughter's had a growth spurt."
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
While some naysayers doubted Cook could carry the brand forward, he has proven them wrong, leading the company on an unprecedented growth spurt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
They view the inflation spurt as the immediate issue that bonds will continue to fret over, keeping long tenor yields elevated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
The door opened and closed several times as a sudden spurt of customers began to come in.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
The medication, which was first developed 15 years ago, can result in increased height if administered during growth spurts.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
As athletes progress through the sport, growth spurts or puberty can interrupt athletic progress, especially during jumps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
In these environments, black holes experienced brief but intense growth spurts through a process known as 'super Eddington accretion'.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2026
It requires coaches to bet on teenagers before they have hit their growth spurts and based on rankings assigned by high school scouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
He lunged forward in grotesque spurts around the clearing.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
Eyewitnesses described the tanker "swinging around like a compass" as waves crashed over the abandoned ship and black plumes of oil spurted out into the sea.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Treasury yields have spurted higher as they catch up with the main interest rate controlled by the Federal Reserve, which is at its highest level since 2001.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Thus, the Huns were spurted to shift from herders to raiders.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022
The eruption began at the summit of the mountain, when magma spurted through fissures in the rock and filled the bowl-like caldera.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
Out of the hollow pipe spurted a boy.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
"We saw walls collapsing, the floors opening up. And then water and mud began spurting up from underneath the flooring."
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
His paintings of erupting fountains, spurting fireworks and splashing bathers make you feel a cool summer breeze in the middle of a packed fair space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
The ground even opened up, spurting sand out along a zigzagging 100-foot-long stretch of a University of Washington a football field.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Europe's most active volcano has erupted again, where lava can be seen spurting near Italy's city of Catania.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023
Somehow, he’d made it home on the jolting bus, made it to this quiet room where he now sat, sun bleeding low in the sky and spurting its veins on the den window.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
Vocabulary lists containing spurt
Excerpt from "The Little Mermaid"
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