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Recent Examples of Synonyms for groundburst
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The sport witnessed a big boom in the late 1990s and early 2000s, offering drivers big paychecks.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 July 2025 -
Although not technically downtown — downtown's western boundary generally is defined as North Lamar Boulevard — the Belvedere comes amid a downtown building boom that has seen scores of new towers, many of them residential high-rises, transform the skyline during the past couple of decades.—
Shonda Novak,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
Noun
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That day came today as Punk shed his crutches to an even louder pop.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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The spruce wood kit arrives unpainted, giving you the choice to keep it natural or add a pop of color.—
Rylee Johnston,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Aug. 2025
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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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Its retraction shows that scientific conclusions aren’t decided by majority rule in the public square In 2021 a multidisciplinary team of researchers claimed that a Tunguska-sized airburst, larger than any such airburst in human history, destroyed a Bronze Age city near the Dead Sea.—
Mark Boslough,
Scientific American,
25 June 2025
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“Groundburst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groundburst. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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