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dynamite

noun as in explosive

Strongest match

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Often taking the heavy-handed approach of detonating dynamite to free specimens, he amassed a collection of fossils representing both the young and the old.

For journalists suspicious about China’s handling of the virus, the thread—and those that followed—were dynamite.

Still, between the dynamite premise and the excellent cast, the show could easily be salvaged.

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The Taglieris, who work in IT and finance, are used to hearing dynamite detonations at least once a month at the plant, the couple said.

This was way louder and way more powerful than a dynamite blast.

The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.

Music is a huge part of the tone of Black Dynamite overall—going back to the original 2009 movie on which the series is based.

One strip, Foolish Grandpa and Sour Henry, shows Grandpa being hit on the head by a sandbag and blown up by dynamite.

Jamiroquai's "Canned Heat," which was also featured in Napoleon Dynamite's epic dance scene.

But the poem set off tiny sticks of dynamite behind my eyes.

Dynamite, by the good fortune of invention, came to the revolutionary at the very moment when it was most wanted.

He had thought he was amusing himself with a toy cannon, and he had fired a charge of dynamite.

Perhaps he helped to dynamite the barges and drive those Hessians out of town.

The latter crouched there, frozen, hanging onto his hat as if it were a hunk of dynamite.

At the bow of this launch was a long spar, and at the end of this spar was a torpedo holding a hundred pounds of dynamite.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dynamite, such as: nitroglycerin, gelignite, tnt, and trinitrotoluene.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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