Thesaurus / explosive
FEEDBACK- bomb
- mine
- booby trap
- missile
- powder
- ammunition
- grease
- shot
- grenade
- charge
- shell
- munition
- detonator
- dynamite
- gunpowder
- TNT
- fireworks
- soup
- nitroglycerin
- pineapple
- mulligan
- propellant
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Rage, Bob Woodward’s newest book, was already at the top of Amazon’s bestseller list days before Americans learned about its explosive contents.
BOB WOODWARD’S BOOK PROVES AMERICANS STILL WANT TO READ ABOUT TRUMPKAREN HOSEPTEMBER 11, 2020QUARTZThat’s according to an explosive new whistleblower complaint released by the Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday afternoon.
WHAT TO MAKE OF THE DHS WHISTLEBLOWER’S SHOCKING COMPLAINTALEX WARDSEPTEMBER 11, 2020VOXNetflix saw explosive subscriber growth in its first two quarters of this year, mainly attributed to the coronavirus pandemic.
EYEING NEW SUBSCRIBERS, NETFLIX MAKES ‘STRANGER THINGS,’ ‘LOVE IS BLIND,’ AND MORE AVAILABLE FOR FREEARIC JENKINSAUGUST 31, 2020FORTUNEWhen an idle shipment of dangerous explosives burst in Beirut, there were Carrds.
THE INTERNET OF PROTEST IS BEING BUILT ON SINGLE-PAGE WEBSITESTANYA BASUAUGUST 27, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWStill others have proposed that space became magnetized before all this, during cosmic inflation — the explosive expansion of space that purportedly jump-started the Big Bang itself.
THE HIDDEN MAGNETIC UNIVERSE BEGINS TO COME INTO VIEWNATALIE WOLCHOVERJULY 2, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEBut he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIWith an explosive hiss, gray jets of live steam erupted from pipes around the edge of the room.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSAnything made of iron and containing high explosive and detonator will be welcome.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe gasoline used also gave off a gas of highly explosive character and one very likely to escape from leaky tanks or joints.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUSIt is often difficult in serious situations to take these explosive monosyllables seriously.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERWORDS RELATED TO EXPLOSIVE
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