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Recent Examples of airburstBut previous experience from WWII shows just how effective this type of airburst weapon is.—David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 Tall el-Hammam may have been destroyed by a massive cosmic airburst and may have been the biblical Sodom.—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022 However, some astronomers wonder if these accounts describe a Tunguska-style airburst that leveled a city.—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2020 North Korea’s military simulated a nuclear airburst with two tactical ballistic missiles equipped with mock warheads during Monday’s training, while testing a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone again on March 25-27, KCNA said in separate dispatches.—Reuters, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for airburst
The performances, announced exclusively on Variety, see the pop singer touching down in Vegas over Labor Day weekend, with a pair of nights slated for Venetian’s Voltaire venue that seats a thousand patrons.
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Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
3 June 2025
In a recent episode of The Interview podcast by The New York Times with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Cyrus shared why, unlike so many other pop stars, she's never started her own makeup line.
Immigration advocates now say the Trump administration's hiring and firing decisions could threaten the crucial neutrality of the administrative courts.
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Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
6 June 2025
The firings and slashed funding impacted organizations like Sacramento’s Improve Your Tomorrow, which mentors young men of color and prepares them for higher education and joining the workforce.
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