Erupted in example sentence

Amid the chaos of Mobutu’s downfall, a catastrophic regional war drawing in forces from Angola, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zimbabwe erupted, fueled by competition for access to minerals, causing the death or displacement of millions – indeed, slaughter on a scale unseen since World War II.

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You may recall a year ago when a firestorm erupted after the United States Preventive Services Task Force reviewed the world's mammography screening literature and issued a guideline recommending against screening mammograms in women in their 40s.

There were actually two of these: one was growing out the front and had already erupted and latched onto the bowel.

A black hole has erupted.

But soon after I announced that John Derbyshire would be speaking on campus, student backlash erupted on social media.

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