bombshell
Example Sentences
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The judge’s bombshell allegations Tuesday are set to overshadow what would otherwise have been a sweet time in Jonathan’s personal life.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
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
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
Whereas to me it was a bombshell, exploding in a thousand fragments.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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