thunder
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It is possible that heavier downpours with thunder and lightning could affect southern and south-eastern England on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
You can’t have Romeo without Juliet, thunder without lightning, Thanksgiving without turkey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Micron Technology may be about to steal Nvidia’s thunder and underscore its increasing relevance to the broader stock market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
But for the Bolts, favored by 9½ points, there would be no thunder stealing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Behind me, Auntie’s laugh was a clap of thunder.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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As Jalla thunders towards its climax, it erupts amid what is presumably Cyprus's entire stock of pyrotechnics.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
“This is the first round, so show what you got!” host Melkez Reynolds thunders over the dueling DJs.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
“Never darken my door again!” he thunders old-fashionedly, as though he’s subconsciously aware that the writers Kirsi Vikman and Jimmy Karlsson are drawing on centuries of love stories about savage men and civilizing women.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
Which creature could be found “below the thunders of the upper deep,” according to a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2023
In Asgard, three gods sat on their thrones: one-eyed Odin the all-father, red-bearded Thor of the thunders, and handsome Frey of the summer's harvest.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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He’s distracted when he decides to race a comet: “We roared and thundered along side by side, both doing our level best, because I’d never struck a comet before that could lay over me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
A world-cleansing storm has thundered ominously on the horizon ever since “The Bear” began.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
When CNN co-moderator Elex Michaelson asked Villaraigosa if he would cancel California’s much-maligned high-speed rail project, the candidate’s emphatic “No” thundered down like a Lebron James dunk.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Everton pushed for a winner and Gueye, another of Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations heroes, almost got it when he thundered a fierce strike against the bar.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
It thundered across the field, stomped through the stream, and John Henry raced toward it, hammer in hand.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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Noise level, given we're dealing with state-of-the-art racing machines thundering around a circuit, is actually a big talking point currently and particularly pertinent for neurodivergent fans.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
That was the beginning of the chants, arguably louder than for any other player in Dodger Stadium history, stronger than Moo-kie, deeper than Fred-die, chants thundering enough to seemingly be heard for a lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
“It was raining straight down, it was thundering and it was 27 degrees,” he said, recalling watching the storm early Sunday morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
It takes me a while to notice the roar of the audience’s cheers thundering all around the landscape.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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