blockbuster
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What we’re left with is a wannabe blockbuster shadowboxing with itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Promoter Frank Warren is predicting a "blockbuster" 2027 for the heavyweight division, with lucrative fights awaiting Saturday's winner.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Now, he said, the company has delivered six blockbuster drugs and has five or six more in the pipeline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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
Imagine a blockbuster movie about a world united in battle against Nazi oppression.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
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
But while the festival may lack mass-market blockbusters, there is no shortage of larger-than-life subjects, with films about Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and the volatile Gallagher brothers from the Britpop band Oasis on the calendar.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The conventional bombs of World War II were called blockbusters.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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