blast
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So he got the full blast of whatever it was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Now O’Donnell is back behind a network television desk and, by all appearances, is having a blast.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
I sent the editor a six-text blast explaining myself, as if I were getting ready for my own criminal trial.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
It was traveling along the line of sight at more than 6,000 kilometers per second, indicating that a densely bound structure may have survived the initial blast and was now moving rapidly toward us.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 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
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"Think of it as a shower head that blasts the sauce in 1.5 seconds," says Sharma.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In this period before Rosh Hashana, the daily shofar blasts are supposed to get Jews thinking about what they have done wrong in the past year and how they could be better in the next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
During the fire, blasts were heard, initially mistaken for exploding gas cylinders, but they may have been these shells, according to fire commander Thomas Mimiague.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Since the pandemic, the organization has sent out email and text blasts to the community offering boxes of food — only 150 boxes are available each week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The initial pyroclastic flow and blasts expired within minutes, but the vertical eruptions went on throughout the day.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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While S301 became trapped in the black hole's gravity, its partner star was blasted out with such force it likely left the galaxy entirely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
It was Herrington's penalty - blasted against the crossbar - that ultimately eliminated Australia from the tournament in their last-32 shootout defeat by Egypt.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
A more speculative possibility is that the material comes from a third member of the system that is being blasted by the fast wind of particles and X-ray radiation generated by the feeding black hole.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The intro gets blasted at sporting events to raise energy or when something good happens, and it never fails to rally a crowd.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Everybody was cheering and the other boats blasted their steam whistles as it approached 96th Street.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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“I imagine there’s some sort of glitch or bug that’s blasting all your followers when you use similar captions,” they surmised.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Southern California residents blasting air conditioning to get through the summer heat waves will get some relief this month, though not from the 100-degree temperatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Those blasting the decision to prosecute Flores include L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
With black smoke belching high into the sky, Lobga staggers some 90 seconds before collapsing in flames and a U.N. security guard rushes over blasting an extinguisher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
There’s the air conditioner for starters—first too cold and then not cold enough and then noisy and blasting.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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