blockbuster
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Belle Burden’s blockbuster memoir “Strangers,” now in its ninth printing, has sparked a personal-finance reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
The follow-up to 2022 blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick is "officially in development with a script well under way", Paramount's Josh Greenstein told the convention.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Ask people for a recent mahjong cultural reference and chances are they’ll cite 2018’s “Crazy Rich Asians,” the blockbuster that shone a Baccarat chandelier on Singapore’s 0.1%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Nonetheless, Novo beat Lilly out of the gate, releasing an oral version of its blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy in January to explosive demand.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
“Without Miss Dixon’s presence, we will no longer have a blockbuster event, publicity-wise. She’s the company icon, Mr. Branitt. She’s our Aunt Jemima, our Betty Crocker, our—” “Tony the Tiger?” said Curly.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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