blockbuster
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The next solar eclipse, on Aug. 2, 2027, looks to be a blockbuster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Elon Musk's space company went public in June at a value of $1.77 trillion and raised $85.7 billion in its blockbuster initial public offering, the largest in history.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Next week, host Susan Matthews joins Amicus co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern to discuss the blockbuster decisions handed down in June—and Gorsuch’s role in them.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
In their 2021 blockbuster interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan described the freedom to make her own choices as "liberating".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
It was almost like watching the plan beamed straight from his brain onto the screen of a blockbuster movie.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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The story has elements similar to popular summer blockbusters, but they’re so finely remixed and retooled that they don’t bear such exhausting resemblance to their forebears.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Pharmaceutical chiefs are always hunting for drugs to replace expiring blockbusters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But is it really worth seeing these blockbusters in Imax?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Ten years and multiple other blockbusters later, there is an ever-growing speculation that their futures now lie away from the MCU.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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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