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[bam] / bæm /


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"There was just a little bit of heat, then bam, they bombed again, and now nothing works," Yeromina sighed.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

It’s been a steady climb thus far — just continuous momentum, one critically adored album after another, until bam: They’re playing the Bowl the night before John Legend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025

Consequently, the dance style developed swift, sharp and forceful movements - much like how action heroes in comic books beat up their villains, accompanied by sound-effects like "ka-pow" and "bam".

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024

“I wanted to come in, bam bam, with a big surprise,” he said.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

It is dark in the bam, warm, smelling, silent.

From "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner

After that she bammed out “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis,” as if her purpose in life was to play loud enough for old man Tate to hear through the shut windows.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Benny Maestas growled and whistled; Sparky Pacheco bammed his palms against the window; Jimmy Ortega neighed; Betty Apodaca tugged her cheeks out with her fingers, grimacing and loudly clacking her teeth.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

He knelt in the dirt a moment, tenderly feeling his mouth, while the hundred or so spectators cheered and honked some more and clapped and bammed their hands against their hoods and fenders.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Old Pew’s too smart a hand to be bammed with a soft tusheroon.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson

Old Pew's too smart a hand to be bammed with a soft half-tusheroon.

From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by William Ernest Henley

“I’m tired of them bamming my door and treating me like I’m the criminal. They’ve made us enemies by the way they behave towards us,” Johnson said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2020

I could barely hear them over the bamming of my heart.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd


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