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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
Nonetheless, in 1971, a California Democratic congressman named Phil Burton blew the whistle after the fact, reading the secret Justice Department memo into the Congressional Record.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 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
"Another local man told me I better get up the town quick because that was my pub that just blew up," he tells BBC News NI.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
I didn’t move and in that very short time she realized what I was, blew out of the water in a fountain of spray and bottom mud, and was gone.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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