groundburst

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Noun
  • The company was a poster child of China’s property boom in the 2010s, but its collapse beginning in 2021 came to embody the sector’s woes that fueled wider economic strain.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Near the height of the dot-com boom, AOL’s market value reached nearly $164 billion in 2000.
    Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Even though Taylor Swift is a little biased toward Travis Kelce, the pop star’s favorite performance in Happy Gilmore 2 might just have been Bad Bunny‘s.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The pop star has been announced as a Season 2 guest star, but details of her characters have still not been revealed.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The airburst arrived almost a minute and a half after the tremor.
    Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Lunsford noted that a particularly large meteor that some scientists believe to be associated with the annual shower detonated in a powerful airburst 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) over Russian Siberia in June 1908.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 27 June 2025
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“Groundburst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groundburst. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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