smash
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The 27-year-old country singer brought her smash ‘Choosin’ Texas’ to the Greek on Tuesday night in the first of two sold-out shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Last year’s horror film “Sinners,” from “Black Panther” and “Creed” director Ryan Coogler, was a smash hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Usually, he would come up to me as he was walking into the net and say he was going to smash me everywhere and not get out.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Binge-worthy: The coming-of-age drama “Sterling Point” has been this summer’s surprise smash hit, and with good reason.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
If one of these waterspouts hits the ship, the weight of the water could smash the deck & it will be all over.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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Sakurai further gooses the nostalgia factor by laying in time-capsule radio smashes, with 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?” proving particularly important to the plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Take Anne Hathaway, fresh off a string of box-office smashes in “The Odyssey,” “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” “The End of Oak Street” and “Mother Mary.”
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
The sale smashes the record previously set for a residential real estate deal in the Hualālai, which previously stood at $30.2 million, according to Kildow.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
The vehicle, with the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag affixed to its top, then smashes through the tyre-and-barricade wall, leaping into the air and speeding on.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
As you raise the temperature of a gas, the average molecule moves faster and smashes harder into the walls of its container.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Macron said a distinction must be drawn between the "legitimate demands" of protesters and "those who destroyed, smashed and looted".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
On Sunday morning in Paris, residents surveyed the aftermath, which included the smashed glass frontages of designer stores including Ralph Lauren, Gucci and Versace.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
In these experiments, heavy ions such as lead are accelerated to nearly the speed of light and smashed together.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Also in the pool, Japanese swimmer Shin Ohashi, himself only 17, smashed the men's 200m breaststroke world record to delight the home crowd.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The tidal wave lifted her up and then smashed her down against the base of the station with a thunderous explosion of sea-foam.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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The LHC accelerates protons to tremendous energies before smashing them together.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Once it was over, Sabalenka could only congratulate her at the net—before retreating to her chair and smashing her racket to pieces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Who could forget Pietersen announcing himself as an international cricketer in the country of his birth in 2005, smashing runs against the Proteas in a one-day series?
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
A game called "Flappy Bill" features a bald eagle carrying a document in its claws that tries to avoid smashing into columns of various heights, against a background that resembles Washington DC.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Rufus dropped the bag and stepped on it, smashing the contents under his bare heel.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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