blockbuster
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Market choppiness and artificial-intelligence safety fears are throwing what was expected to be a blockbuster fall IPO season into disarray.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The pop superstar just dropped an expanded edition of 2025’s blockbuster ‘The Life of a Showgirl.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Sarries were short of domination - the lead swapped hands four times in the final half hour of a blockbuster - but victory away at Leicester was a fine statement of intent.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Novo is the company behind blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, but investors are concerned that its next-generation products are lacking.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
I hated the dreams with a burning passion, but the fact that I was having them didn’t seem like a big blockbuster of a surprise to me.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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Jing, 38, has headlined blockbusters in both China and Hollywood, starring opposite Matt Damon in “The Great Wall” and appearing in “Kong: Skull Island” and “Pacific Rim Uprising.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Film fans have had plenty of chances to spot Glasgow on the big screen in recent years, from superhero blockbusters to futuristic sci-fi thrillers.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The film industry rode blockbusters like Spider Man and The Odyssey to a record for domestic ticket sales, Rentrak preliminary data show.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Cancer immunotherapies like Keytruda and rival drug Opdivo are some of the other major blockbusters set to lose patent protection this decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Those dozen blockbusters are the cereals wheat, corn, rice, barley, and sorghum; the pulse soybean; the roots or tubers potato, manioc, and sweet potato; the sugar sources sugarcane and sugar beet; and the fruit banana.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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