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bomb

[bom] / bɒm /




VERB
fail miserably
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A Libyan man accused of building the bomb that brought down an American airliner over Lockerbie nearly 38 years ago has lost his bid to have the case thrown out of court.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

As far as we know the unexploded bomb remains intact for now, and for some experts this is a success.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

They printed their images in a dark room that Zlozower improvised in a bomb shelter tucked into his parents’ house, then sold the best ones at Aron’s Records on Melrose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

When Barbabella arrived, he called out: “I need the most seriously injured!” recalled Josh Sweeney, who had been closest to the bomb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

“Can you tell me what time the first bomb hit Pearl Harbor?”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

As Hedda Gabler warned, bored women are time bombs whose agitation puts everyone at risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

For years the American military failed to destroy a single bridge at Thanh Hóa—not for lack of bombs, but for lack of precision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Both Po-2 crews had dropped their bombs over their target, and neither aircrew had been caught by enemy gunfire.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

“When we used to defend airfields, either you got bombed from a great distance or it was an insurgency coming through the wire,” says Greg Bagwell, president of the U.K.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

“Man, those singer guys just bombed so hard. I mean, they utterly and totally butchered ‘Hotel California,”’ Ashish said, walking in with two bottles of water.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Reinach felt confident he had saved the painting from bombing or seizure by the Nazis, who would soon occupy Paris.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Forty-nine aircraft were available for water bombing and cloud seeding to make rain, although many have been grounded intermittently due to the haze.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

A major American bombing raid struck Vemork on November 16, 1943, contributing to the eventual end of heavy water production there.

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

To make matters worse, one night after a bombing mission, their aircraft got stuck at their intermediate airfield without food and low on fuel.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein


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