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bomb

[bom] / bɒm /




VERB
fail miserably
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The very first sentence of Allen dropped a bomb that most people may have missed:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The couple who deployed the smoke bomb at their gender reveal party agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors and were sentenced in February 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

The Iranian conversion facility, without which one can’t make a bomb, was destroyed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Casias had been an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the first atomic bomb was developed and where nuclear weapon work continues, her family told local news outlets after her disappearance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

“Now we just need to sneak off to the station and make it back to Bletchley before the Germans bomb or Marion tells my mum we’re dead.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin




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