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Recent Examples of blistering Even with that caveat, Monday was a blistering and memorable procurement cascade. Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 3 July 2024 On a blistering hot day in August, DPW worker Ronald Silver II, a 36-year-old father of five, collapsed on his trash route in Canton and died. Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024 Key Background Fresh off of its best nine-month start to the year since 1997, the S&P has returned a blistering 23% year-to-date and 66% over the last two years, as an extended bull market emerged from 2022’s anxiety that hot inflation would pose a major overhang to stocks. Derek Saul, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 Meanwhile, Bridges, Jalen Brunson and OG Anunoby were already in double figures for the Knicks, who shot a blistering 63.4% from the field through the first two quarters. C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 16 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for blistering
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Adjective
  • The May 1945 bombing came on the heels of another intense U.S. firebombing campaign known as Operation Meetinghouse.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The sun has once again unleashed a powerful solar flare, continuing its streak of intense activity.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • By 540 million years ago, the Cambrian explosion was underway — a rapid diversification of life that saw the emergence of complex multicellular organisms, predatory behavior and the foundations of modern ecosystems.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • According to a 2024 study published by Realtor.com, Texas accounted for 15 percent of new housing permits issued across the U.S., despite only making up 9 percent of its population, helping to keep prices and rents relatively cheap despite the rapid inflow of people.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite her apparent hypertension, a doctor cleared Diana Carey to be taken to a regular hospital floor instead of continuing intensive monitoring, according to the lawsuit.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2025
  • After this close encounter with intensive factory farming, the narrator vows to go vegan.
    Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For new mothers without medical complications, the experts recommend a combination of activities such as brisk walking, cycling and muscle-strengthening exercises for at least 120 minutes per week—ideally spread over four or more days.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
  • To achieve their signature white color and brisk flavor, the stalks of Asparagus officinalis require a signature treatment: a growing season without a hint of sunshine.
    Yolanda Evans, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Monday night’s fierce winds took it down, damaging the support structures in the process.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Gemini: The White Lotus: New England Logline: At a historic White Lotus resort nestled in the heart of coastal New England, a subtle, yet fierce, class warfare simmers beneath the surface.
    Martine Paris, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As his health faded in the last year of his life, Neruda rushed to finish his story, which gives the last chapters of his book a galloping, fragmented quality.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 June 2021
  • The artist was in Times Square last week to offer his latest corrective, unveiling a massive bronze statue of a young African American man in urban streetwear sitting astride a galloping horse.
    NBC News, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2019
Adjective
  • Hot Spring Shark Attack is set in a small, hot spring town in Japan, where a ferocious ancient shark reawakens and terrorizes the local hot spring facilities.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Moments of ferocious, wall-of-noise intensity come interspersed with passages of beautiful calm, like vape breaks between stints inside a dungeon rave.
    Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Swedish forward was given a quick audition during the Sens’ blowout loss to the Avalanche earlier this week.
    Julian McKenzie, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • While this area did receive rain on Thursday, the blustery winds yesterday resulted in quick drying of fine fuels, which will dry further today.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2025

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