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View definitions for bursts

bursts

noun as in firecracker

noun as in fireworks

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Michael said expanding the reservoir, which still requires additional efforts to secure funding, will be a significant step in preparing the state for the effects of climate change, including shrinking snowpack and flashier bursts of storm runoff.

Despite bursts of virality and media coverage, the movement is still far from mainstream, and given its decentralized online existence, there is no concrete data on how many South Korean women actively identify as “4B.”

“We then timed those collapses or those deflations to the moments where truth bursts the son’s bubble, which is moments of realization. That is the realization that everything he’s learned from his parents is a lie.”

When Earth passes through this debris the "comet crumbs" heat up as they enter our atmosphere and burn up in bright bursts of light.

From BBC

I had traveled to Montana to observe and participate in the American democratic process, the way most Americans engage with American democracy—not in union halls or public forums, but on the receiving end of a one-way fire hose of paid propaganda and professional manipulation, rendered in 30-second bursts of flickering blue light, largely in isolation, via television.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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