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blockbuster

[blok-buhs-ter] / ˈblɒkˌbʌs tər /
NOUN
depth charge
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Even including its blockbuster 2025, Applied Optoelectronics hasn’t posted a net profit since 2017.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

SpaceX seems to be getting a step closer to a blockbuster initial public offering.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

Stock-market volatility has largely upended what was supposed to be a blockbuster year for initial public offerings, but Plaid’s finance chief says her company can afford to wait for the right moment to go public.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Tolkan was also well known for drilling Maverick and Goose with swift reprimands and tough love between puffs of his cigar as their commanding officer, Tom “Stinger” Jardian, in the 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Imagine a blockbuster movie about a world united in battle against Nazi oppression.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein