explosion
B1UK /ɪkˈspləʊʒn/US /ɪkˈspləʊʒn/
Meaning
noun
the sudden violent bursting and loud noise of something such as a bomb exploding; the act of deliberately causing something to explode
“a bomb/nuclear/gas explosion”
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“It feels like there's this explosion of possibility”
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“so if there's an explosion it's”
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“And it's the combination of all the things we've talked about: technology and its transformational effect on work, and demography and the huge explosion in population.”
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