bombshell
Example Sentences
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass released a budget bombshell last year, stunning the city workforce by proposing widespread layoffs and other cuts in a bid to erase a $1-billion spending gap.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the organization for regulators from every U.S. state, in 2024 published a bombshell study revealing that the ratings on insurers’ private-credit investments were routinely inflated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
And when the next bombshell research report drops, ask yourself: Do I own the companies in the obituary section or the companies writing the eulogy?
From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026
During questioning by a Senate committee in 1973, Butterfield made the bombshell disclosure that then-President Richard Nixon had a recording system in the Oval Office.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
My father’s arrest had come in September, and when Christmas was but two days away, my mother dropped a bombshell.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
