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
On Monday, his three-run blast put the Dodgers up 5-0 in the third.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Most of the trees around them were still upright, but their tops had been sheared off in the blast.
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
It has previously been linked to contact sports including American football and boxing, and found in military members exposed to explosive blasts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 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
He’d seen the TV commercials for the new sets, powered by “smart bricks” that light up when laser blasts are fired and emit a chorus of zooming spacecraft engine sounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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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China's foreign and defence ministers were in Jakarta Friday for talks with their Indonesian counterparts to seek greater political and military cooperation days after a joint navy drill Taiwan blasted as a "provocation".
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The collision blasted this weathered material from as deep as 1.5 feet beneath the lunar surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 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
People living next to a quarry say their homes shake, pictures fall off the wall and their children are frightened each time huge rocks are blasted.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Mom’s writing music blasted out into the hall.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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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
His cheering friends were already outside blasting music and snapping and filming this much-loved Nigerian "signing-out" ritual.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Too many times, she said, residents of a nearby homeless encampment have partied late into the night — sometimes yelling, sometimes blasting music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
“They oughta call it John Glenn instead of John Wayne,” Dalton once said—because taking off from there was the closest most people would ever get to blasting off into space.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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