thunderclap
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"On paper, this was another thunderclap quarter. And yet the stock dipped. The market is no longer pricing growth. It is pricing perpetuity."
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
His chapters end with a wink as often as a thunderclap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
He remains a thunderclap from the baseline, but has options other than ferocious groundstrokes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2025
A local resident told Yonhap that he had been watching television at home when the explosion, which sounded "like a thunderclap", shook the house.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
This was because Aunt Gloria shouted it out like a thunderclap.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
His new setting is peaceful, aside from occasional thunderclaps rolling through the valley during the rainy season, and the wildlife.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
He made a video reacting to the thunderclaps in the Radiohead song “Creep,” and once again, a million views in a day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
When it's all over but the crying there's no doubt we'll wish for more time with the Roys while appreciating that Armstrong and the cast are ending the show while its thunderclaps still shake us.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2023
On Twitter, Shakers share seismograms with one another of thunderclaps, power lifting workouts, neighborhood construction and other curious recordings, using the hashtag #WhatsTheWiggle.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
I tested every handhold for loose rocks and moved only in the thunderclaps of cannon fire as they echoed in the gorge.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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