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thunderbolt

[thuhn-der-bohlt] / ˈθʌn dərˌboʊlt /
NOUN
bolt
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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

The defeat hit the German people like a thunderbolt.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

True to his word, he was best when fresh, slipping straight back into bowling thunderbolts.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2025

During those performances, the music was notably crisp, landing on the grassy landscape like thunderbolts.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2024

Some of them resemble branching snowflakes, thunderbolts or neurons, whispering the unique expression of the artist's vision.

From Science Daily Mar. 3, 2024

"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

“I forged the thunderbolts, she fired them,” Stanton said.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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