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  1. exploding

    An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases. Supersonic explosions created by high explosives are known as detonations and travel through shock waves. Subsonic explosions are created by low explosives through a slower combustion process known as deflagration.

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  1. Exploding

    of Explode

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of exploding in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of exploding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of exploding in a Sentence

  1. Jack Kerouac, "On the Road":

    The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

  2. Lynda Barry:

    Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

  3. Charlyce Bozzello:

    The COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of strain on both workers and employers, and labor unions have been quick to take advantage, but the idea that union activity is exploding, specifically around strikes and work stoppages, has been overhyped by the media.

  4. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill:

    The idea of absolutely prioritizing the value of free choice and of rejecting the priority of moral norms has become a slowly exploding bomb for Western civilization, if we could just cut in half the number of abortions, there would be steady and powerful demographic growth.

  5. John Griffin:

    Horrible things are done to groundhogs in the name of nuisance control, like gassing them, exploding burrows, poisoning and some of them are pretty ill considered, other species get harmed in that process. If you're broadcasting poison, there's any number of animals that can be impacted, including the predators that prey on them.

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