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blast

[blast] / blæst /


NOUN
gust of wind
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"Why do some supermassive black holes blast out radio jets right after shredding a star, while others just sit there looking completely dormant, only to suddenly fire up their jets months or even years later?"

From Science Daily Sep. 21, 2026

Betts also hit a solo blast in the first.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Spence, who now lives in Paisley with his husband and child, told BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast that the show was "such a blast".

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

That’s the benefit of employing the easiest lyrics in the world to blast an emotional message into the sky.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

These flows did not reach as far away from the mountain as the earlier lateral blast, which had already killed almost everything living in the area of Pumice Plain.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

The president is a pop-culture fanatic; he blasts Broadway showtunes at his rallies and was tweetstorming about Kristen Stewart a few years before becoming the leader of the free world.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

That amount of energy is comparable to the output of several billion supernova explosions, the powerful blasts produced when certain stars reach the ends of their lives.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

California’s top prosecutor blasts Paramount-Warner Bros. conduct as ‘amateur hour.’

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Once completed, Pacific Fusion’s facility will produce more than 1,000 times more fusion power than the government-operated machine that was put into service for weapons experiments after the U.S. stopped underground blasts in 1992.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

And cry so hard that a foam of spit blasts out across the framed reviews for Aw Shucks.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

Under one scenario, a giant object struck Mars and blasted material into orbit.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

Strong surf across Southern California this weekend blasted through a seawall in Long Beach, caused a massive sinkhole at a celebrity’s Malibu home and damaged several Dana Point homes, among other issues.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

On Sunday, a rescue team rappelled over a hole blasted into a section of the tunnel and called out but received no response from inside, the prime minister’s office said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Nasa's powerful next-generation telescope has blasted off into space from its launchpad in Florida, with a mission to explore dark energy, black holes and other mysteries of the Universe.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

If Storch’s eyes had been cannons, they would have blasted Nate into the sky.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

"At first it was the blasting and the tremors from underground, and we would feel our flat shake," 45-year-old Voneen Trompeter told AFP in Roodepoort, northwest of central Johannesburg.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

The company says loyalty members visit about three times as often as other customers, so the opportunity is turning casual diners into regulars, leaning on personalized offers rather than blasting the same message to everyone.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Nepali authorities are blasting into hillsides to try and reach those trapped, with a controlled blast carried out at the Trishuli site in an attempt to open up access in the early hours of Monday.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

John does all that too, on top of his parents blasting all fear out of him while rearing him to expect the universe to be unforgiving.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

That week, you would have thought that Lil was blasting off to the moon, she was that nervous.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt




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