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blockbuster

[blok-buhs-ter] / ˈblɒkˌbʌs tər /
NOUN
depth charge
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What we’re left with is a wannabe blockbuster shadowboxing with itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

But in short order, Cohn’s New York Magazine article was adapted into “Saturday Night Fever,” a blockbuster film and one of the bestselling albums of all time.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

Half a century later, Saint - by then in her early 80s - made a big screen comeback as Superman's adoptive mother in the 2006 blockbuster Superman Returns.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Big players in artificial intelligence are lining up a series of blockbuster financing deals to pay for computing hardware, part of a rush for capital as data-center build-outs race forward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

As Chauncey Burr continued a lecture tour west into Cleveland, Ohio, he readied Ruth’s blockbuster confession for release.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Alejandro González Iñárritu cast the Hollywood star as a bombastic Texas oil baron in ‘Digger,’ bringing the actor back to art-house cinema after almost two decades focused largely on action blockbusters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Apted went on to become a big name in Hollywood, directing blockbusters including James Bond's The World Is Not Enough, but he always returned to the show and said it was his most significant achievement.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

In a season full of intense dramas, massive blockbusters and thought-provoking indie films, these are the movies that will be on everyone’s lips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

But while the festival may lack mass-market blockbusters, there is no shortage of larger-than-life subjects, with films about Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and the volatile Gallagher brothers from the Britpop band Oasis on the calendar.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

The conventional bombs of World War II were called blockbusters.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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