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burst

[burst] / bɜrst /




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The initial burst also illustrates how a relatively small number of high-profile accounts can set the agenda for a much larger audience.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

Around the time she graduated in 2021, the property bubble burst.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

She said she often relied on sugar for a quick burst of energy just to get through the day.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The S&P Cotality Case-Shiller National Home Index, the benchmark for home prices, fell a third in real terms in the years after the bubble burst and is still below the peak.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

My face was hot, so hot that I thought my head would burst.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Its sensitive camera can detect sudden or unusual changes in light that may indicate powerful cosmic events, including exploding stars called supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and collisions between neutron stars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Both maximum and minimum temperatures were consistently above normal with only very short-lived bursts of heat, falling short of any official heatwave.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

While the U.S. stock market has sometimes stumbled this year after Treasury yields’ sudden bursts higher, Kourkafas sees economic growth and a rotation into tech helping the S&P 500 digest higher rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

The club music that accompanies Claire’s bodybuilder retinue is funny the first time; less so on subsequent bursts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

In the corners of the back wall mural, I spied tiny bursts of red nestled in the painted blades of grass.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Previously, I’d been seduced by demonstrative courtship, but Mark wasn’t effusive, and when someone bursted into laughter with “She’s hysterical!” at one of my jokes, Mark looked bewildered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

“Cordage has collapsed like a bursted meteor,” reported the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, “and the other industrials have all of them shared to a considerable extent in the decline.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

It bursted out of TikTok and into the mainstream last month, when Shakira performed the “Jiggle Jiggle” dance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

Minnesota bursted out to a 23-0 lead at halftime as Pittsburgh struggled on offense and with run defense.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

I bursted that comet bat all to pieces and hit a foul.

From Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 by Various

The protected area Kunagado and his friends have cultivated is bursting with corals and is now home to hundreds of heat-resistant "super corals" that may protect the village from the impacts of rising sea temperatures.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

That’s why any major pullback or bear market in stocks “will rock the economy,” she said, pointing to the 2001 recession that followed the bursting of the dot-com bubble.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Its track record just so happens to include both the global financial crisis and the bursting of the internet bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Economists widely speculate that even the current giants are not all likely to survive and that some kind of "levelling" is coming – also known as a bursting bubble.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Tears tracked down Ophie’s cheeks as Aunt Rose took the flower, both of the spirits bursting into glittering shards as they moved on.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland


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