spurt

Example Sentences

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Some may perceive this as mere growing pains for a now-decade-old Silicon Valley giant that experienced a massive growth spurt after ChatGPT’s takeoff.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

While there are the usual array of snack food and soft drink companies that will appearin the commercial breaks, viewers will also see a spurt in pharmaceutical ads.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Big picture: The U.S. economy showed a big spurt of growth in the spring and summer despite higher U.S. tariffs and stubborn inflation.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026

A spurt of interest in Germany in the late ’70s inspired her to write a memoir, which, like two more novels, remained unpublished when she died in 1982.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Each time I yanked the screw out, I got a spurt of cork, but the stub remained snug in the bottleneck.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez