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[thuhn-der] / ˈθʌn dər /






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Sunshine and showers will be the dominant theme, with northern and eastern regions seeing the greatest concentration of these, and possibly hail and thunder too.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

You can’t have Romeo without Juliet, thunder without lightning, Thanksgiving without turkey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Micron Technology may be about to steal Nvidia’s thunder and underscore its increasing relevance to the broader stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

But for the Bolts, favored by 9½ points, there would be no thunder stealing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

The answering growl was like a deep rumble of thunder, or the roar of a steam engine approaching the station, or the sound of a snowy avalanche on some distant alpine peak.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

As Jalla thunders towards its climax, it erupts amid what is presumably Cyprus's entire stock of pyrotechnics.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

“Never darken my door again!” he thunders old-fashionedly, as though he’s subconsciously aware that the writers Kirsi Vikman and Jimmy Karlsson are drawing on centuries of love stories about savage men and civilizing women.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

Which creature could be found “below the thunders of the upper deep,” according to a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2023

“Right now there’s a lot of smoke plume and it oozes and thunders, the curtains shake,” Aquino said.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

I throw myself through the flap and then immediately up against the sidewall as the yak thunders past, his crooked horn just inches from my chest.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

That proved effective the following year, helping personnel evacuate when water from a glacial lake thundered down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

When CNN co-moderator Elex Michaelson asked Villaraigosa if he would cancel California’s much-maligned high-speed rail project, the candidate’s emphatic “No” thundered down like a Lebron James dunk.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Everton pushed for a winner and Gueye, another of Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations heroes, almost got it when he thundered a fierce strike against the bar.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

As the sweeping “O Fortuna” movement of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana thundered over the loudspeakers, he rose from underneath the stage while sitting on a badass, none-more-black throne decorated with skulls and a gigantic bat.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

Ophie’s heart thundered in her chest, and she squeezed the washrag so hard that water dripped onto her house slippers.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

Once inside the park before 8 a.m., their first stop was the Bridalveil Fall Trail, a short trek that takes visitors right to the base of the thundering cascade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

As he dominated center stage, the thundering chorus of his speeches — “I am … somebody” — inspired his followers even as it sometimes sounded like a painful plea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

“It was raining straight down, it was thundering and it was 27 degrees,” he said, recalling watching the storm early Sunday morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

I bolted down the hall, clutching Fig against my thundering chest, and planted myself in front of the TV.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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