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bomb

[bom] / bɒm /




VERB
fail miserably
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The U.S. government initiated and oversaw the entire enterprise that unleashed the atom and made the bomb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Dalit recalls how her eldest son, Uri, turned nine on 7 October 2023 - when they spent the day hiding in their bomb shelter.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

What some newspapers called a "suspected bomb plot" ended in the suspects being bailed.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

A UK probe into a suspected bomb plot at an airbase used by the United States was mired in confusion on Tuesday, after media reported no explosives were detected in vehicles seized nearby.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

The new basement shelter had a four-inch-thick door, Army cots and canned food, a direct phone line to the Pentagon’s bomb shelter, and a shower to wash off radioactive fallout.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

It’s also one of the biggest bombs for any studio this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The volunteers risking their lives to defuse Indonesia's wildfire 'carbon bombs'

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

What to know: Don’t be fooled by the title of this drama, co-produced by Britain’s Sky Television—you’re not going to get guns and bombs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

"These buildings are nothing but ticking time bombs," said Ahmed Al-Ajla, whose uncle and other relatives were killed in the collapse.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union had tested bombs in nearly three years.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

“When we used to defend airfields, either you got bombed from a great distance or it was an insurgency coming through the wire,” says Greg Bagwell, president of the U.K.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

In 2006, she memorably performed as a kids’ birthday party entertainer—and bombed.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the bombed Kyiv printing press Viktoria Haidai told me protecting the industry was vital to preserving Ukrainian literature.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

They also came after Israel bombed the disused Abu Duhur airbase in the country's northwest earlier in the week, claiming it wanted to avert Turkish troops deploying to the facility.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

Even rooms like the living room and kitchen, which nobody but she went into, began to look as though they had been bombed.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

It was revealed during evidence from the journalist John Ware who has reported extensively on the bombing.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The hearings will centre on the days immediately before and after the atrocity and will examine how the bombing was carried out and who was responsible.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

It stood at 6% in February, before the U.S. bombing campaign began.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1994, the government closed Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to vehicle traffic.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Kissinger traveled to Paris to make the president’s position clear to North Vietnamese negotiators: Nixon had not resumed the bombing of North Vietnam and had begun pulling out American troops.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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