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Siri finally works like a chatbot, but AI agent apps such as Instinct and Muse are stealing its thunder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

But for the Bolts, favored by 9½ points, there would be no thunder stealing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Even a few kilometres can make the difference between a torrential downpour with thunder and lightning, and somewhere staying completely dry.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

He was the last speaker of the three-hour event, and thunder had been audible outside for over an hour.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

“I’ve never heard of a thunder god with a name like Thor. Where do you hear things like that anyway?”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Erling Haaland thunders his way into our top 10 as the definition of a traditional centre-forward.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

Another scene, in which a captured German officer demands the young private’s name and Mainwaring thunders: “Don’t tell him, Pike” is routinely voted one of Britain’s funniest TV moments.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

The secretary of state’s “silence thunders in my ears and heart,” the rabbi wrote.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023

“Never darken my door again!” he thunders old-fashionedly, as though he’s subconsciously aware that the writers Kirsi Vikman and Jimmy Karlsson are drawing on centuries of love stories about savage men and civilizing women.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

My heart thunders in my ears as I pick my way along the edge of the alleyway.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Church bells pealed and cannons thundered when Americans learned that the Continental Congress had adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

When CNN co-moderator Elex Michaelson asked Villaraigosa if he would cancel California’s much-maligned high-speed rail project, the candidate’s emphatic “No” thundered down like a Lebron James dunk.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

"Where is the money?" supporters of Magyar's party, Tisza, thundered in unison, referring to accusations against local Fidesz politicians over millions of euros of public funds that have gone missing.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

As the sweeping “O Fortuna” movement of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana thundered over the loudspeakers, he rose from underneath the stage while sitting on a badass, none-more-black throne decorated with skulls and a gigantic bat.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

The ocean thundered on, oblivious to Sierra’s plea.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

And I heard about it, in thundering waves of sarcasm and snark, from old fashioned emails to online comments, a tsunami of taunts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Ride, its follow-up, is a darker dose of disco, punctuated with cracking whips and the thundering footfall of wild horses.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

“It was raining straight down, it was thundering and it was 27 degrees,” he said, recalling watching the storm early Sunday morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

I finally fall asleep and dream of the Greek Titans in my school lesson, battling to a backdrop of thundering bass in "Da qual tremore insolito" from Don Giovanni.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper