thunder
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But for the Bolts, favored by 9½ points, there would be no thunder stealing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
While inside, I heard what sounded like thunder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The first warning is valid from 02:00 BST with thunder and heavy rain due to move across south-east England in the early hours of Thursday morning.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
He was the last speaker of the three-hour event, and thunder had been audible outside for over an hour.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
A clap of thunder sends me scurrying into the house as sheets of rain hit the ground.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
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“This is the first round, so show what you got!” host Melkez Reynolds thunders over the dueling DJs.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
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
Yet this new chamber music triptych dances more than it thunders.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Turn off “The Last Dance” videos, lose the romantic Bulls-colored glasses, separate the myths from the men, and the reality thunders down like a trademark James tomahawk dunk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
Flo thunders next to us, each footstep echoing in the silence.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
Footsteps thundered across the pasture and Roz leaped into the fight.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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That was the beginning of the chants, arguably louder than for any other player in Dodger Stadium history, stronger than Moo-kie, deeper than Fred-die, chants thundering enough to seemingly be heard for a lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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
Richael Keller has always been sensitive to loud commercials, but when thundering streaming-service ads disturbed her sleeping newborn, her reaction was heated enough to blaze a path to the California state Capitol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 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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Physical Geography - Introductory
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