groundburst

noun

Definition of groundburstnext
as in boom

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  1. boom
  2. pop
  3. airburst
Noun
  • The e-commerce boom has helped fuel a rise in digital fashion.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Flashback: Chime last raised in 2021, netting $750 million at a $25 billion valuation at the height of the fintech boom.
    Ryan Lawler, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of boom
Noun
  • The pop star, 35, recently spent a day at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., on Dec. 12 to spread some holiday cheer.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • May Records showed there was no evidence of a mass shooting plot for Dogwood Dell in 2022, VCU grads protested Youngkin's commencement speech by walking out, and pop star Chappell Roan performed in Richmond.
    Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of pop
Noun
  • 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
Definition of airburst
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