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Recent Examples of airburstThe Chelyabinsk airburst, caused when a small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded over a Russian city in February 2013, rattled many astronomers, space agencies and governments, and partly in response to this dramatic event, NASA reactivated NEOWISE in September 2013.—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025 Scientists now believe this was due to a meteor airburst.—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 But previous experience from WWII shows just how effective this type of airburst weapon is.—David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 Tall el-Hammam may have been destroyed by a massive cosmic airburst and may have been the biblical Sodom.—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022 See All Example Sentences for airburst
If overproduced, commercialized songs play tag with a fleeting moment of pop culture, music with a seanchaí-storytelling ethos often borders the avant-garde because of its willingness to see surprising continuities between the past and present.
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Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
On Tuesday, the pop artist took to social media to blast Gere for selling her childhood home after allegedly agreeing to take care of the property when purchasing the estate from her father, singer Paul Simon.
The firings come as Bondi and the agency have come under fire for not releasing any further information on the department’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
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Maria Gracia Santillana Linares,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
But that number was an optical illusion following Robert Saleh’s firing after Week 5.
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Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
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