as in to burst (in or into)
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Loading your audio article Apple has suffered a major blow in a massive unequal-pay lawsuit launched against the company after a female employee allegedly found on an office printer a male colleague’s tax form suggesting men at the Cupertino firm were paid more than women for the same jobs.
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Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
The head of Southern California Edison said Wednesday that winds blowing in Eaton Canyon on Jan. 7 were not strong enough to meet the threshold the company uses for de-energizing the powerful electrical transmission line.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Hot, arid winds blowing in from the Sierra Nevadas, White Mountains, and Klamath Basin strip whatever moisture there might be in the Los Angeles air, and that further dries out leaves and underbrush and other fuel.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
Mobile homes were damaged or destroyed in the Montgomery County communities of Katy and Porter Heights, where the doors of a fire station were blown in, the weather service said.
—CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024
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Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
The head of Southern California Edison said Wednesday that winds blowing in Eaton Canyon on Jan. 7 were not strong enough to meet the threshold the company uses for de-energizing the powerful electrical transmission line.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Hot, arid winds blowing in from the Sierra Nevadas, White Mountains, and Klamath Basin strip whatever moisture there might be in the Los Angeles air, and that further dries out leaves and underbrush and other fuel.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
Mobile homes were damaged or destroyed in the Montgomery County communities of Katy and Porter Heights, where the doors of a fire station were blown in, the weather service said.
—CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024
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