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Example sentences for: explosion

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All these cases warrant attention, but the explosion of numbers may be caused by the growing reportorial sensitivity of professionals, that is, "definitional creep."
Dealing with the consequences of the explosion or release is the responsibility of the FDNY.
And the Challenger explosion outranks China's Great Leap Forward.
The LAT and the NYT state early on that the explosion may jeopardize the peace agreement, but the WP notes in its second paragraph that "local Protestant and Catholic leaders insisted that the tragedy . . . would not block implementation" of the agreement.
The Journal runs a similar piece lamenting the explosion of partisanship and gridlock on Capitol Hill.