groundburst

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Noun
  • And while bonus depreciation applies to a variety of physical items, its creation led to a boom in jet sales in the past decade.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • Economists and business leaders maintain that tariffs probably won’t lead to a major American factory boom.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 20 Jul. 2025.

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