blockbuster
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After swinging from victory to victory, the Tom Holland and Zendaya-led blockbuster caught second place this weekend, bringing in another $8.4 million, for a global total of $2.45 billion over its seven weeks in cinemas.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Garrett was acquired in a blockbuster trade that married the NFL’s best defensive player with its best team, and his arrival understandably led Donald back into pads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Last week, Nvidia reported blockbuster second-quarter earnings results, which led to the company achieving its largest one-day market-capitalization gain on record.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
The manager was the key factor in this blockbuster deal with Maresca keen to reunite with his former Chelsea skipper.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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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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
If these therapies become blockbusters, the diagnostic companies doing that sequencing could hold a lucrative tollbooth on every dose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
A swath of other summer blockbusters would be released alongside them; A “Spider-Man” here, a “Mission: Impossible” there.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
His romantic novels such as The Last of the Mohicans were literary blockbusters.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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