blockbuster
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Debt Deals: Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX are lining up a series of blockbuster financing deals to pay for computing hardware, part of a rush for capital as data-center build-outs race forward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Alex Coles barged over before Freeman rounded off a blockbuster day in the closing stages.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
But in short order, Cohn’s New York Magazine article was adapted into “Saturday Night Fever,” a blockbuster film and one of the bestselling albums of all time.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
So, since that “Odyssey” contract was trading at 50 cents on Kalshi as of Monday afternoon, that means the market believes Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster has a 50% chance of winning.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
And I can always find something to mock in a blockbuster.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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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
These drugs are highly complex medicines manufactured inside living cells and often end up being multibillion-dollar blockbusters for drug companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
In a season full of intense dramas, massive blockbusters and thought-provoking indie films, these are the movies that will be on everyone’s lips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
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
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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