noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bomb blast/explosion
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The restaurant was destroyed in a massive bomb blast.
a population explosion/boom (= when the population increases quickly and by a large amount )
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What will be the long-term effects of this population explosion?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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First came a humming, then a big explosion , and my hearing went.
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Stupidly, I tried to throw it on the fire and caused a big fireball explosion that singed my arms and face.
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It was the second big explosion there in a year.
combinatorial
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Both systems were faced with a combinatorial explosion of partial solutions since the input data matched very many rules or partial descriptions.
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These create a combinatorial explosion of possible genotypes on which natural selection acts.
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They reduce the average branching factor and hence the potential combinatorial explosion of paths through the graph.
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This produces a considerable combinatorial explosion , making processing beyond the first level somewhat impractical.
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This can help provide more domain-specific definitions, and reduce the combinatorial explosion produced by expanding definitions beyond the first level.
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What is required therefore is a method of compressing these definitions so that this combinatorial explosion is reduced.
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We shall now look at ways of reducing the potential combinatorial explosion of breadth-first search. 9.2.
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This reduces the combinatorial explosion and decreases the potential for spurious overlaps through the co-incidence of alternative word senses.
controlled
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Local residents were evacuated in case there needed to be a controlled explosion .
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The hoax devices were destroyed in controlled explosions by army bomb disposal experts, using remote-controlled vehicles.
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After a series of controlled explosions , the van was removed from the scene early yesterday.
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The station area was evacuated while the controlled explosion was carried out.
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The device was removed from the shop and detonated in a controlled explosion .
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The army carried out a controlled explosion on the car but it was found to contain no explosives.
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The heat released in this reaction, which is like a controlled hydrogen bomb explosion , is what makes the star shine.
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The bomb disposal unit destroyed the bomb with a controlled explosion .
huge
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In 1873 much of the mill was destroyed by a huge boiler explosion .
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In the evening, gunfire and huge explosions erupted along the former front line, but no further injuries were reported.
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There was, he had told Mr Malik, a huge explosion planned for 16.00 hours.
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A huge explosion drowned the enemy fire and Killion caught a glimpse of a burning bomber slowly sliding along on its nose.
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Two workers were slightly hurt in a huge explosion and fire at the Conoco oil refinery at Immingham on the Humber estuary.
large
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Films taken by a submersible robot established that the ship had sunk as a result of a large explosion .
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Loss of atmospheric gases and impactor materials to space becomes even more important for larger explosions .
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All large explosions are safely out at sea.
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And high temperatures automatically followed, since the whole process was nothing more than a large explosion , albeit a controlled one.
loud
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There was a loud explosion and the flames roared fiercer.
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Three of my men entered the woods, and we heard an ex-tremely loud explosion .
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I heard a loud explosion just to my left.
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This time, I was up on the wooded area myself, and we heard a loud explosion behind us.
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I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me.
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The frequency of published reports has actually declined since 1960 because people tend to dismiss loud explosions as merely military sonic booms.
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I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand.
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The utter silence fell like a loud explosion .
massive
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The impact had caused a massive explosion which had ravaged the planet.
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Witnesses reported at least one massive explosion , which rocked houses up to a quarter of a mile away.
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A massive explosion occurred during testing at Tobolsk on the same pipeline in October.
nuclear
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On Aug. 29 Nazarbayev closed the nuclear testing site at Semipalatinsk where over 500 nuclear explosions had been carried out since 1949.
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Setting off his first nuclear explosion was fun.
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The nearby Trinity Site is where the first nuclear explosion took place.
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Even modest-sized nuclear explosions can have effects detectable over intercontinental distances.
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Strangely, as they soar ever upwards, the balloons take on a mushroom-shape as if there's been a nuclear explosion beneath.
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You could have what they call a radiological weapon that would not have a nuclear explosion .
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Accidental nuclear explosions can not occur; the bombs are designed so they can not be exploded by any chance event.
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We would call this a one-kiloton nuclear explosion .
small
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A patrol in the city centre was crossing a road when a small explosion occurred near a fence-post.
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It was a very small explosion , but it reverberated loudly and quickly across Washington.
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I kept hearing these small explosions and I wondered what could possibly be the cause.
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Another, smaller explosion at the row of ATMs did less damage.
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There have been smaller explosions in recent years, such as 1975, 1987, 1994 and 1998.
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There was a small explosion in the nitrogen cooling tanks.
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He says that they carried weapons of a kind which fire by creating a small explosion .
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However, ice buried meters deep may be excavated at any time by a small impact explosion .
sudden
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Then there would be the sudden explosions of violence late at night after the men had been drinking.
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I want... fireworks: a sudden explosion !
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But as the plane climbed in a steep curve above the Sussex countryside it was rocked by a sudden explosion .
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He had nearly reached the landing when he felt a sudden and violent explosion in his head.
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A sudden explosion of brightness lit up the whole sky.
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Against the darkened portion of the asteroid there was a sudden , dazzling explosion of light.
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It's time to open the presents - A sudden explosion of glass made him jump.
tremendous
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On November 13, 1932, four tremendous explosions blew out the entrances and exits of the two Arizona tunnels.
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Hundreds reported that it fell to earth north of them, and a tremendous explosion ensued.
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I heard a large whoosh and a tremendous explosion right in front of me.
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With a tremendous explosion , the guts of the carrier are torn out.
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Instantly, there was a tremendous explosion .
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They climbed to safety, and a moment later a tremendous explosion rocked the gorge.
violent
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This caused a violent explosion resulting in extensive damage.
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He had nearly reached the landing when he felt a sudden and violent explosion in his head.
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As a result, violent explosions rocked the vessel and led to its abandonment within an hour of the attack.
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Calderas created by violent explosions can be of enormous size.
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That prevented a potentially violent political explosion .
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Fearing a more violent explosion of disagreement, pride in not wanting to be the first to make a move.
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It is commonly said that tsunamis are usually triggered by earthquakes or violent volcanic explosions .
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According to these learned fellows, the universe began with a violent explosion .
■ NOUN
bomb
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Mr. Bowis My right hon. and learned Friend will recall the bomb explosion a month ago on the track in my constituency.
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For comparison, the atomic bomb explosions that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki were about 20 kilotons each.
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A bomb explosion aboard a ferry south of Trincomalee on Sept. 10 killed 24 soldiers and 15 civilians.
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The heat released in this reaction, which is like a controlled hydrogen bomb explosion , is what makes the star shine.
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Three people were reported killed and three injured in bomb explosions in the capital Santo Domingo on Sept. 23.
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The bomb explosion during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics seems to have been pivotal.
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In Johannesburg two men died in overnight bomb explosions at the city's main railway station.
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On Aug. 22 Abdullah stated that there had been 170 bomb explosions in the state in the previous 12 months.
gas
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Coal gas production became involved with safe gas explosions .
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A natural gas explosion that killed three and injured more than 20 others in 1992 has made the community particularly wary.
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Ronan Point, a 22-storey block in East London, crumbled like a pack of cards after a gas explosion in 1968.
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There had been a gas explosion and there were several casualties.
population
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Pressures on carers will increase as Britain faces a population explosion among the most vulnerable elderly people.
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It could be a major factor is reversing the deadly momentum of the population explosion .
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He cites in support of this the population explosion .
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Mention procreation, and they talk about the population explosion .
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Pettitt sees urban services in particular offering vast scope for expansion as city fathers wake up to the dangers from the car population explosion .
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As the summer reaches its peak, there will be a population explosion of butterflies.
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Living with a partner, 6. Population explosion , 7.
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But nomatterhow hard they are worked the population explosion continues.
■ VERB
cause
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The objectors said radio waves from the latter could cause explosions in the plant.
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Stupidly, I tried to throw it on the fire and caused a big fireball explosion that singed my arms and face.
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They have also pleaded not guilty to causing the explosion and possessing explosives with intent to endanger life.
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Black powder was used in the pipe bomb that caused the explosion , Daschle said.
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The impact had caused a massive explosion which had ravaged the planet.
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Twenty years ago we would have turned up the sound, wondering what caused the explosion .
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A man and a woman were charged on April 15 with conspiracy to cause explosions and with possession of explosives and arms.
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Which House aides said it might take several days to reach a conclusion about what caused the explosion .
control
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A controlled explosion was carried out at 12.30am.
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It was later destroyed in a controlled explosion .
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This is very much like a controlled , continuous explosion taking place.
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Police carried out several controlled explosions of suspect packages at the site.
create
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Calderas created by violent explosions can be of enormous size.
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These create a combinatorial explosion of possible genotypes on which natural selection acts.
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He says that they carried weapons of a kind which fire by creating a small explosion .
destroy
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The hoax devices were destroyed in controlled explosions by army bomb disposal experts, using remote-controlled vehicles.
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Two nearby cars were destroyed in the explosion .
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All four devices, destroyed by controlled explosions , were harmless.
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It was later destroyed in a controlled explosion .
die
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Richard Penzer, whose sister Judy died in the explosion , said he felt better after talking to the president.
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Then it crashed to the ground and died , no explosions , no flames reaching to the sky.
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One hundred sixty people died today in the explosion of a jet on takeoff from Djakarta.
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Six bystanders also died in the explosion .
follow
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All this came to an abrupt end following an explosion on one of his sites.
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During the flurry of action that followed the explosion of the mine, the bombardment of the city had continued.
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There followed an explosion , and another a few seconds later.
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There was an unnatural silence, like the uncanny hush immediately following an explosion .
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In 1985, a girl suffered serious burns following an explosion in a house 50 metres from a landfill in North Yorkshire.
hear
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Fishermen reported hearing the explosion and bits of debris were washed up for months afterwards.
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These witnesses had heard an explosion and seen a column of smoke rise from behind a range of hills in Soviet territory.
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I heard a loud explosion just to my left.
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This time, I was up on the wooded area myself, and we heard a loud explosion behind us.
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Edouard was in the car, on the far side of the square, when he heard the explosion .
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I started to circle the smoke and flames below us when we heard explosions .
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He reported hearing a second explosion .
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I remember hearing the explosion from my back door.
injure
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Three people were reported killed and three injured in bomb explosions in the capital Santo Domingo on Sept. 23.
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Twenty-one people were killed and 167 injured in the explosions at two Birmingham city centre pubs in 1974.
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Fourteen people injured in the explosions were still being treated at Warrington general hospital yesterday.
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Two Commercial Union building maintenance men and one security guard were injured in the explosion .
kill
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More than 2,000 people have been killed in pipeline explosions in the past two years.
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Dad got killed in a mine explosion .
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Thirty-four passengers were killed in the explosion that followed.
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Three young soldiers were killed instantly when an explosion inside the reactor forced it literally through the roof of its housing.
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Two men were killed in Monday's explosion at Castleford, Yorks, and three are still seriously ill in hospital.
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Scrutton, 38, was killed in the explosion .
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Between 1839 and 1845, 224 men and boys were killed by explosions .
lead
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Liquid alcohol used to warm food can be toxic and improper handling can lead to an explosion .
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Whatever the reason, the expansion has led to an explosion of interest.
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This is the first stage of a nuclear reaction which can lead to an explosion .
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In others, unsatisfactory political or economic conditions have led to an explosion of protest behavior and political violence against the regime.
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If it is too long it could lead to an explosion of potential interpretations.
produce
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Catastrophic fragmentation Catastrophic fragmentation is a likely means of producing an atmospheric explosion of a bolide.
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This tiny rock carries enough kinetic energy to produce an explosion equivalent to several thousand tons of high explosives.
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This produces a considerable combinatorial explosion , making processing beyond the first level somewhat impractical.
set
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The stage therefore seems set for an explosion of counselling.
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Now imagine 5 billion people, the entire population of Earth, each setting off a 24ton explosion at the same time.
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The scene was now set for the final explosion .
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A short-circuit set off an explosion in the high-pressure chamber, a fire brigade official said.
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They had been deliberately set to defer the explosions .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a violent storm/earthquake/explosion etc
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According to these learned fellows, the universe began with a violent explosion.
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During a violent storm it broke away and drifted westwards until it hit land on the barren headland of San Quentin.
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Passing beneath it, Crevecoeur was reminded of a violent storm of hail beating upon his head.
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The second is part of the river Indus, which was diverted after a violent earthquake in 1819.
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The slaves gathered on August 30, 1800, but disbanded because a violent storm and flood made military operations impossible.
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This caused a violent explosion resulting in extensive damage.
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Travelling home one night in a violent storm, Polly was struck by lightning and had to be destroyed.
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Within minutes the brown patch of sky enveloped me, as a violent storm swept across the dunes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a nuclear explosion
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An explosion of conflict last month left at least six people dead in the town.
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an explosion of laughter
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Murray was killed instantly by the explosion .
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No-one can say where the amazing explosion of digital services will take us.
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Officials insist the case is unrelated to the explosion in homicide rates among teenagers.
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Rabbits and ducks have been contributing to a population explosion in the park.
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The company cannot meet demand, and has seen an explosion of customer complaints.
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The noise of the explosion could be heard all over the city.
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These people are full of hope. An economic explosion is underway in their country.
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We live in the century of population explosion , with the world's population doubling at least every 25 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A massive explosion occurred during testing at Tobolsk on the same pipeline in October.
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All large explosions are safely out at sea.
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Another, smaller explosion at the row of ATMs did less damage.
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Even modest-sized nuclear explosions can have effects detectable over intercontinental distances.
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Pressures on carers will increase as Britain faces a population explosion among the most vulnerable elderly people.
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The explosion rivalled Vesuvius, Pelee and others of the historical era.
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The change in instrumentation thus touched off an explosion of information.
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When some one or something stops them from getting their own way, their frustration can build up to explosion point.