bombshell
Example Sentences
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass released a budget bombshell last year, stunning the city workforce by proposing widespread layoffs and other cuts in a bid to erase a $1-billion spending gap.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the organization for regulators from every U.S. state, in 2024 published a bombshell study revealing that the ratings on insurers’ private-credit investments were routinely inflated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
A new bombshell has just entered the villa.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
Three weeks before the Olympics, the pair were preparing to compete in the European Championships when Papadakis released a bombshell book.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
Things haven’t been the same since I saw him with that blond bombshell.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
