Bursts and Flares

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Flares and bursts are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Flares" instead the word "Bursts" as a noun or a verb.

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Bursts and flares are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bursts" instead the word "Flares" as a noun or a verb.

Larry Niven's Ringworld has a super-sized example where The sun that Ringworld orbits can be manipulated to emit photon bursts through solar flares.

Source: That's No Moon!
It occasionally gives off powerful flares called Wave Bursts, which travel towards Ra Ciela and kill anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in the blast.

Source: Solar Flare Disaster
Emotional bursts flares up one's Ki, and causes the transformation; the purer and kinder the individual, the more potent the rage-burst when it happens (potentially explaining why Vegeta had such a hard time - he's always angry, so him raging isn't that big an emotional burst).

Source: Only the Pure of Heart

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