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blockbuster

[blok-buhs-ter] / ˈblɒkˌbʌs tər /
NOUN
depth charge
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Asian chip firms rallied Thursday following more blockbuster earnings from Nvidia that eased worries over the AI investment boom, though the euphoria was tempered by US data showing stubbornly high inflation.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

When Whitney Houston recorded her blockbuster version of I Will Always Love You for The Bodyguard soundtrack in 1992, the country star still owned the rights and earned "enough money to buy Graceland", Presley's mansion.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Ten years later, Whitney Houston’s blockbuster take on the song, recorded for the soundtrack of “The Bodyguard,” became a multiple Grammy winner and the all-time best-selling single by a female artist.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta abruptly pulled out of a planned mediation session Monday to seek a resolution to the antitrust lawsuit that has stalled Paramount Skydance’s blockbuster $111 billion merger with Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Imagine a blockbuster movie about a world united in battle against Nazi oppression.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

A swath of other summer blockbusters would be released alongside them; A “Spider-Man” here, a “Mission: Impossible” there.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

Roche’s purchase of Genentech was a triumph, securing control of such cancer blockbusters as Avastin and Herceptin.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 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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