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  • noun Plural form of burster.

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Examples

  • While one cannot be ready for "anything" (gamma ray bursters are hard to prepare for) it is prudent to have some emergency supplies, food, hand tools, medical supplies, etc.

    The End-of-the-World Survival Kit 2009

  • And a supernova is described as "the most intense brilliance nature ever creates," ignoring the far brighter outbursts of quasars and the phenomenal stellar explosions known as gamma-ray bursters.

    Solar Illumination John Gribbin 2011

  • While one cannot be ready for "anything" (gamma ray bursters are hard to prepare for) it is prudent to have some emergency supplies, food, hand tools, medical supplies, etc.

    The End-of-the-World Survival Kit 2009

  • Well, apparently, one of the potential gamma-ray bursters out there, WR 104, is only 8000 light-years away and, um, pointed right toward us.

    Michio Kaku Lecture: Physics of the Impossible 2008

  • Supernova, gamma-ray bursters, enormous black holes in every galaxy spewing deadly torrents of radiation, supervolcanoes, solar flares, not to mention planet-busting asteriods, all pose threats to civilization and life itself.

    The Fermi Paradox: Where are they? Stephen D. Covey 2008

  • Still, the downburst theory continued to divide the meteorological community “into bursters and antibursters.”

    Storm Warning Nancy Mathis 2007

  • The winds known as southerly bursters are generally to be expected from

    The Art of Living in Australia 2004

  • Hellex expanders, Tarifa bursters, and Jaffna jelly.

    The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • The electric hum in the air was accented by a hucka-hucka sound of large paper machines that the operators called bursters.

    RL’s Dream Walter Mosley 1995

  • The winds known as southerly bursters are generally to be expected from November to the end of

    The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

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