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thunderbolt

[thuhn-der-bohlt] / ˈθʌn dərˌboʊlt /
NOUN
bolt
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Cameroon also fell behind, against Mozambique in Agadir, but a thunderbolt from Christian Kofane delivered a 2-1 victory.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

The attack fell like a thunderbolt on the country’s tightly knit Jewish community.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

That’s why the revision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of its advisory on vaccines and autism struck like a thunderbolt, and not in a good way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

The Reds continue to press and Adam Phillips has another thunderbolt blocked in the area before Nicky Cadden's looping cross has to be tipped over the bar by Nathan Baxter.

From BBC ● May 2, 2024

If Zola had a thunderbolt, I think she would throw it.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

Across the floor and walls sprawl grand mosaics and sculptures depicting lions, piles of gold, thunderbolts and ancient Roman gods.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025

Some of them resemble branching snowflakes, thunderbolts or neurons, whispering the unique expression of the artist's vision.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2024

Raining basketballs, strobe lights, rotating school hallways, CGI thunderbolts?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

"I think Diana ... will be hurling thunderbolts on coronation day, that's for sure," royal author Tina Brown told Reuters.

From Reuters ● May 6, 2023

But Chen wanted to incur thunderbolts during drought.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston




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