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thunderbolt

[thuhn-der-bohlt] / ˈθʌn dərˌboʊlt /
NOUN
bolt
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Cameroon also fell behind, against Mozambique in Agadir, but a thunderbolt from Christian Kofane delivered a 2-1 victory.

From Barron's Dec. 31, 2025

The attack fell like a thunderbolt on the country’s tightly knit Jewish community.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 15, 2025

That’s why the revision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of its advisory on vaccines and autism struck like a thunderbolt, and not in a good way.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2025

The higher-for-longer inflation predicament has hit the U.S. housing market like a thunderbolt.

From New York Times Apr. 12, 2024

Once more Penelope dropped her books, for the solution had just hit her like a thunderbolt.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Glenn Phillips was the unfortunate recipient of Archer's thunderbolts, somehow surviving to reach 49 not out.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

Some of them resemble branching snowflakes, thunderbolts or neurons, whispering the unique expression of the artist's vision.

From Science Daily Mar. 3, 2024

Raining basketballs, strobe lights, rotating school hallways, CGI thunderbolts?

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2023

"I think Diana ... will be hurling thunderbolts on coronation day, that's for sure," royal author Tina Brown told Reuters.

From Reuters May 6, 2023

“I forged the thunderbolts, she fired them,” Stanton said.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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