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thunder

[thuhn-der] / ˈθʌn dər /






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But for the Bolts, favored by 9½ points, there would be no thunder stealing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

While inside, I heard what sounded like thunder.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

The first warning is valid from 02:00 BST with thunder and heavy rain due to move across south-east England in the early hours of Thursday morning.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

He was the last speaker of the three-hour event, and thunder had been audible outside for over an hour.

From Slate Aug. 25, 2026

A clap of thunder sends me scurrying into the house as sheets of rain hit the ground.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

“This is the first round, so show what you got!” host Melkez Reynolds thunders over the dueling DJs.

From Seattle Times Apr. 12, 2024

Which creature could be found “below the thunders of the upper deep,” according to a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

From Slate Jun. 12, 2023

Yet this new chamber music triptych dances more than it thunders.

From New York Times Feb. 23, 2023

Turn off “The Last Dance” videos, lose the romantic Bulls-colored glasses, separate the myths from the men, and the reality thunders down like a trademark James tomahawk dunk.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 8, 2023

Flo thunders next to us, each footstep echoing in the silence.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

That proved effective the following year, helping personnel evacuate when water from a glacial lake thundered down.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

When CNN co-moderator Elex Michaelson asked Villaraigosa if he would cancel California’s much-maligned high-speed rail project, the candidate’s emphatic “No” thundered down like a Lebron James dunk.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

Everton pushed for a winner and Gueye, another of Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations heroes, almost got it when he thundered a fierce strike against the bar.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

As the sweeping “O Fortuna” movement of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana thundered over the loudspeakers, he rose from underneath the stage while sitting on a badass, none-more-black throne decorated with skulls and a gigantic bat.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2025

Footsteps thundered across the pasture and Roz leaped into the fight.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

That was the beginning of the chants, arguably louder than for any other player in Dodger Stadium history, stronger than Moo-kie, deeper than Fred-die, chants thundering enough to seemingly be heard for a lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2026

“It was raining straight down, it was thundering and it was 27 degrees,” he said, recalling watching the storm early Sunday morning.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2026

This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.

From Salon Nov. 8, 2025

Richael Keller has always been sensitive to loud commercials, but when thundering streaming-service ads disturbed her sleeping newborn, her reaction was heated enough to blaze a path to the California state Capitol.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2025

I bolted down the hall, clutching Fig against my thundering chest, and planted myself in front of the TV.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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