thunderbolt
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Ermedin Demirovic unleashed a thunderbolt in the 90th minute to send Stuttgart into the top four with a 1-0 home win over Freiburg in the Bundesliga on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
The attack fell like a thunderbolt on the country’s tightly knit Jewish community.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
That’s why the revision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of its advisory on vaccines and autism struck like a thunderbolt, and not in a good way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
The higher-for-longer inflation predicament has hit the U.S. housing market like a thunderbolt.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
He was Lord of the Sky, the Rain-god and the Cloud-gatherer, who wielded the awful thunderbolt.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Some of them resemble branching snowflakes, thunderbolts or neurons, whispering the unique expression of the artist's vision.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2024
Raining basketballs, strobe lights, rotating school hallways, CGI thunderbolts?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
Fiji struck with, as England head coach Steve Borthwick put it, "a couple of thunderbolts" as they scored two tries in quick succession to level things late on, but England found a way to win.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2023
"I think Diana ... will be hurling thunderbolts on coronation day, that's for sure," royal author Tina Brown told Reuters.
From Reuters ● May 6, 2023
But Chen wanted to incur thunderbolts during drought.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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