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The Chelyabinsk airburst, caused when a small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded over a Russian city in February 2013, rattled many astronomers, space agencies and governments, and partly in response to this dramatic event, NASA reactivated NEOWISE in September 2013.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Scientists now believe this was due to a meteor airburst.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
But previous experience from WWII shows just how effective this type of airburst weapon is.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
Tall el-Hammam may have been destroyed by a massive cosmic airburst and may have been the biblical Sodom.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Scientists now believe this was due to a meteor airburst.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
But previous experience from WWII shows just how effective this type of airburst weapon is.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
Tall el-Hammam may have been destroyed by a massive cosmic airburst and may have been the biblical Sodom.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airburst
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
Noun
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The firings of immigration judges in February as part of the administration’s cost cutting DOGE program added to the backlog strain.—
Cody Copeland,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 June 2025
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Kennedy's firing and replacing the entire slate of advisers shifts the fundamental purpose of the group, says Schwartz.—
Pien Huang,
NPR,
25 June 2025
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This envelope becomes unstable and eventually ignites, triggering the first detonation.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
2 July 2025
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Court documents state that one video appeared to show Phillips holding a detonation device.—
Cameron Knight,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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“Airburst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airburst. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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