bombshell
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Plus: A Financial Flashback to 40 years ago, the Boesky insider-trading bombshell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
The question was sparked by a bombshell lawsuit filed by a former student at Cornell University, some 200 miles north of the district.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
Then the bombshell of the series - something that has never happened before in the history of the show.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
SpaceX dropped a wireless industry bombshell late Thursday that sent shares of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile lower in after-hours trading.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Whereas to me it was a bombshell, exploding in a thousand fragments.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Peacock announced last week that Montgomery was among the bombshells entering the villa in Fiji for the latest season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Two aspects of the 28-point peace plan, in particular, landed like bombshells in Europe’s defense and foreign-policy establishment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
When the news broke and Agar was presented with his baggy green cap by Glenn McGrath, Cricket Australia's own website called it "one of the biggest Ashes bombshells in history".
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
And she thought she had narrowly escaped the bombshells in recent days.
From BBC ● May 29, 2025
But the paper presented these allegations as scandalous bombshells, call-ing them “startling disclosures.”
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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