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bomb

[bom] / bɒm /




VERB
fail miserably
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"Our night ended and there was no drama and it was cool. But these things can go sour. You can have a ticking time bomb with that."

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Dahlia Lithwick: Even by the low, low standards of the DOJ these days, this was quite a bomb.

From Slate • May 22, 2026

Before it was destroyed, Mariupol’s theater served as a bomb shelter whose denizens cut across social, economic and cultural classes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

"Imagine if either the Nazis or the Russians got the nuclear bomb first. That would have been a very, very different world," he said.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

A fission bomb could provide this—but too slowly.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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