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Engineers blew up part of a mountain to make room for a hotel carved into the blasted stone walls.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
I had started going through menopause, so in the first or second season, I kind of blew up like a little balloon.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
FedEx blew away quarterly earnings expectations and raised its full-year outlook, in anticipation of higher sales and profits despite soaring oil prices and global shipping disruptions caused by the Iran war.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
Referee Jean-Jacques Ndala blew the final whistle of that match in Rabat almost two months ago, but the ramifications of events during the game will impact African football for a long time to come.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
“Rowdy,” I said in a whisper, “whatever that is, it must be suffering. I bet that storm blew down a den tree that had some baby coons in it and one of them got hurt.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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