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as in to eject
to violently throw out or off (something from within)
the volcano erupted clouds of poisonous gas and tons of hot ash
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as in to explode
to develop suddenly and violently
a fire erupted, and flames soon engulfed the room
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Recent Examples of erupt
The tragedy that erupted from the fireworks compound more than six months ago in Esparto continues to expose gaps and loopholes in a fireworks industry that lawmakers and authorities believed to have been heavily regulated for safety.
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Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Water started pouring out of the ceiling of an Auburn Gresham apartment building during the afternoon after a pipe erupted.
—Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Jonathan Kuminga, the man exiled to the end of the bench for more than a month, erupted.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
Firefighters battled through burning debris and whipping winds to extinguish a four-alarm blaze that erupted inside a Brooklyn warehouse on Wednesday.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
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Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Water started pouring out of the ceiling of an Auburn Gresham apartment building during the afternoon after a pipe erupted.
—Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Jonathan Kuminga, the man exiled to the end of the bench for more than a month, erupted.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
Firefighters battled through burning debris and whipping winds to extinguish a four-alarm blaze that erupted inside a Brooklyn warehouse on Wednesday.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for erupt
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During the crash, the man who was operating the tractor was ejected and pinned underneath it.—
Jose Fabian,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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The motorcyclist was ejected and died at the scene of the crash, CHP Officer Jasmine Lopez said.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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It's now been 40 years since New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Just more than a minute after ignition, the ruptured booster caused the shuttle’s giant external fuel tank to explode, tearing the vehicle to pieces over the ocean and dooming all seven astronauts.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
28 Jan. 2026
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Wheatley made her offer before he’d even succeeded in expelling the British from Boston.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Academics, journalists, students, have been fired or expelled, or, in some cases locked up for expressing their speech.—
Jenelle Riley,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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Sucking them in and spitting them out all at once, like shadows flickering on the wall of the cave.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
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With their sharp eyesight, surprising memory and talent for spitting water, archerfish (family Toxotidae) have forced scientists to rethink what intelligence looks like.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
17 Jan. 2026
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And of course batteries aren't emitting either.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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So many names for nonpersons, emitted with such ease!—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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Ultimately, all the statues end up in place, the fountain starts spurting red water like the Kool-Aid Man had been stabbed, and their prize pot grows to $106,000.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2026
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The first half of Tarantino’s epic action-movie mixtape Kill Bill is both ultra-stylish and ultra-violent, qualities that blend to create a kinetic blur of flashing blades and spurting arteries.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
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These stand out amid the otherwise adequate effects, which simply get the spurting, spewing job done.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Today, a Luddite is your grandparent who keeps looking at the screen rather than the camera when on Zoom, the Boomer who types in all-capital letters, the grouchy man who refuses to get a smart phone, the professor spewing invective against Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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On Tuesday morning, all eyes on Wall Street seemed glued to the nearest screens in expectation that the Supreme Court would finally disgorge its opinion on the legality of President Trump’s tariffs.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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Moses was held in fear—his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
1 Dec. 2025
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“Erupt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erupt. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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