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has burst

  • present perfect of burst (3rd person singular).

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The situation has burst into a brawl involving the city’s most powerful.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Now that the retreat bubble has burst and I’m back home, I decide to expand my Good Inside engagement.

From Slate May 10, 2026

Even if a bubble already has burst, “that doesn’t preclude a big correction in the index if corporate earnings falter,” Higgins wrote.

From Barron's Mar. 25, 2026

While we have known about Penaud's quality for a while, his partner-in-crime Louis Bielle-Biarrey has burst on to the scene.

From BBC Feb. 14, 2024

‘The storm has burst at last,’ he thought.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien