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, to `kill in a burst' (v.)
It was initiated during a burst of city planning after the 1906 earthquake, and the early structures — note especially the black-and-gold-domed, recently renovated City Hall — form the finest grouping of French Renaissance–style architecture in the country.
This burst of selection is necessarily episodic—once a new function is attained by one of the duplicates, selective constraints on this gene are reasserted.
A gunman burst into the U.S.
Pope Pius XII, opening a conference at the Vatican in 1951, declared that this scientific theory of cosmic origins bore witness "to that primordial 'Fiat lux ' uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation.