dive bomber

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Among the best is Kiss Kiss Goodbye, by Czechia's Adonxs, who divebombs from an angelic falsetto to an unsettling baritone as he confronts his absent father.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

I am sweating up one such section, suspended hundreds of feet above the forest by a three-finger grip and half a foothold, Jeremy 15 feet above me, when a hornet divebombs my face.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

Karen divebombs Trust Exercise much as the fiendish Amy Dunne crashes into Gone Girl, laying waste to the fake, conventional narrative she’s constructed to punish her cheating husband.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2019

Making a sharp U-turn, it headed back north toward Long Island and then cut out to sea along the continental shelf, where it waited out the storm while refueling with a few divebombs for fish.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2012