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erupt

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To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring. David Brin

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. David Brin

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. Eldridge Cleaver

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way. Christopher McDougall

Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb...Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago. James Lovelock

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. Boris Pasternak

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