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
The producers of which had the good sense to stream worldwide for all of us outside the nation’s capital who wanted to experience the thunderclap of Page’s Lear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
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
The voices still, followed by explosions of noise—louder than a tree snapping, softer than a thunderclap.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
Guest soloist Alexander Wasserman practiced the Grieg concerto, chords like thunderclaps resonating from the grand piano, a gorgeous black-lacquer Shigeru Kawai donated for this performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025
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
Levels of suffering that once felt like thunderclaps now resemble a metronome's clicks — the background noise against which everyday life plays.
From Salon ● May 9, 2022
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
