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bomb

[bom] / bɒm /




VERB
fail miserably
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The very first sentence of Allen dropped a bomb that most people may have missed:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The couple who deployed the smoke bomb at their gender reveal party agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors and were sentenced in February 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Officers with the Bakersfield Police Department responded to a confirmed bomb threat at the Chase Bank at Chester Avenue and 17th Street on Tuesday afternoon, the department said in a statement on X.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

The Iranian conversion facility, without which one can’t make a bomb, was destroyed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

It is too dangerous to continue the planned journey to Burma—there is concern that the Japanese might bomb the Grant—so the captain changes course for Australia, with plans to dock in Manila along the way.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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