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bolt

[bohlt] / boʊlt /


NOUN
flash; projectile
Synonyms
NOUN
large roll of material
Synonyms






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Another bolt from the blue: singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

“We’d have these jackets with a big Chargers lightning bolt, the dark-blue stuff before the baby-blue stuff was en vogue.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

December 28: Boeing urges airlines to undertake inspections after an international operator discovered a bolt with a missing nut while performing routine maintenance.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

Whether the form has legs, wheels or a tower, it still needs actuators, sensors, edge compute, safety systems and someone to bolt it into a line.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

I click the metal bolt to the link on my chest.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

A previously unreported Binance document, along with other internal records, reveal the nuts and bolts of how Zanjani’s network used the exchange to move money against the wishes of Western governments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Goldie is interested in getting to the nuts and bolts right off the bat, with bullet points of your basic income and spending parameters, such as:

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Workers will install 350 bolts for containment booms in the east of the gulf.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Rudolph explained that the exhibit’s hardware, including its bolts and nuts, are unique and extremely specialized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

And then suddenly, thousands of the steel bolts that held the tank together let go.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis


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