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bomb

[bom] / bɒm /




VERB
fail miserably
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An Austrian Airlines flight from Israel to Austria has been forced to divert to Bulgaria after a reported bomb threat.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

It felt cathartic when he hit that song’s freaked-out chorus — “There’s a bomb in my car!” — in a hail of guitar noise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

One possible route to an atomic bomb involved building a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium, a radioactive element that can be used in nuclear weapons.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry has heard that an Irish army camp received a warning that the town was to be the target of a bomb the day before the fatal explosion.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The world’s first hydrogen bomb was five hundred times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.

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

Junior transport minister, Kier Mather said removing the masts had reduced the risk of them toppling on to and detonating the bombs.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Ukraine’s Night Watch division uses Lima to blast signals over a 120-mile range that disrupt drones, missiles and guided bombs, said a major in the unit, known by his call sign Alchemist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The volunteers risking their lives to defuse Indonesia's wildfire 'carbon bombs'

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Half of those would be MK-84 bombs and the rest would be BLU-117s, the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Three weeks later, two American atomic bombs forced Japan to surrender.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

In 1969, we signed with Frank Zappa’s Straight Records, but our first two LPs bombed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

In 2006, she memorably performed as a kids’ birthday party entertainer—and bombed.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the bombed Kyiv printing press Viktoria Haidai told me protecting the industry was vital to preserving Ukrainian literature.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

They also came after Israel bombed the disused Abu Duhur airbase in the country's northwest earlier in the week, claiming it wanted to avert Turkish troops deploying to the facility.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

They flew in formation, fired at targets pulled by tow planes, simulated combat runs, and dive- bombed.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

Recognizing its importance to Germany's nuclear ambitions, Allied forces targeted the plant through sabotage and bombing operations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

You bring up a historical moment that not a lot of Cuban Americans know about, which was the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455, by an anti-Castro Cuban exile group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

As the investigation continues – into both the bombing in Monaco and the murder in Ukraine - Berezovska's family have many questions of their own.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Rae helped oversee the FBI’s response to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

She decided that the 46th Guards should change the way they flew their bombing missions.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein


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