bombshell
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It wasn’t a surprise, but it was a bombshell.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was planning to head to Brussels last month to deliver what would be a bombshell announcement in a meeting with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s top military chiefs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
It would have taken weeks for the bombshell document to reach Whitehall.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
They will have to wait longer after Amazon.com dropped a bombshell on the industry.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
A few days later, I received a different kind of bombshell, this time a call from the clerk's office in Baldwin County.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
The calming locales both complement and contradict the plot’s revelations, which are hardly bombshells but do speak to how well-to-do families labor to shove inconvenient skeletons into the closet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The hearing produced no major bombshells or confirmation of alien life.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Two aspects of the 28-point peace plan, in particular, landed like bombshells in Europe’s defense and foreign-policy establishment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
He claims more bombshells are on the way.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025
But the paper presented these allegations as scandalous bombshells, call-ing them “startling disclosures.”
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
