thunderclap
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Jack Dempsey was a human thunderclap, but hardly alone in that.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
"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
I seemed to be less shocked by it now than I had the first time last August, when it had broken over our heads like a thunderclap in a flawless sky.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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
From footsteps to thunderclaps, little is heard on set other than the actors’ dialogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
The light rises and fades while faint thunderclaps can be heard — sounds that in fact are a slowed-down recording of clay being knocked out of brick molds, the artist explained.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
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
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
