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
The defeat hit the German people like a thunderbolt.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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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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