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airburst

noun

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as in boom

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Recent Examples of airburst These could hold clues to future threats from space like airbursts and actual impacts into Earth's surface, according to researchers. — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025 In the event of a swarm attack, this warhead can take it out with an airburst of shrapnel. — New Atlas, 13 Sep. 2025 The airburst arrived almost a minute and a half after the tremor. — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025 However, the most likely outcome would be a high-altitude airburst. — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for airburst

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For the mostly Hispanic agriculture and food processing workers, the data center boom hasn’t been all good.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Artificial intelligence and the data center boom are influencing many things across Georgia, ranging from politics and technology to debates over energy, water consumption and land use.

— Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of boom

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Under Bondi and Blanche’s leadership, the department has lost thousands of employees through firings, resignations or voluntary departures.

— Alanna Durkin Richer, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
Part of the process included increasing the duration of the satellite’s thruster burns to get ready for the multi-hour firings needed while grappling the observatory.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of firing

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Lebanese officials have objected to the Israeli military’s ongoing detonation of homes and other buildings in southern Lebanon amid negotiations to expand the pilot zones.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Protecting pilot vision A nuclear weapon produces an intense burst of thermal and visible light within fractions of a second after detonation.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026

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