groundburst

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Noun
  • Jensen Huang, the co-founder of Nvidia, the company whose chips lie at the heart of the AI boom, was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States at age nine.
    Matthew J. Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • That called into question all the spending Wall Street had assumed would go into not only Nvidia’s chips but also the ecosystem that’s built around the AI boom, including electricity to power large data centers.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, Kelce has used his NFL platform as a launching pad into even wider mainstream pop culture exposure.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • What began as an Instagram community during the pandemic has evolved into a vibrant collection of more than 200 original works spanning digital, mural, abstract, and pop culture art — each inspired by Whataburger's iconic orange-and-white striped aesthetic.
    Claudia Alarcón, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The asteroid is estimated to be traveling at about 17 km (10.5 miles) per second, which would create a large airburst and shock wave in the atmosphere.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 19 Feb. 2025
  • 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.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Groundburst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groundburst. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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