thunderclap

Example Sentences

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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

He remains a thunderclap from the baseline, but has options other than ferocious groundstrokes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 7, 2025

Reaser’s laugh erupts without warning, big and loud like a thunderclap; Harner’s is equally boisterous.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 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