thunderclap

Example Sentences

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"On paper, this was another thunderclap quarter. And yet the stock dipped. The market is no longer pricing growth. It is pricing perpetuity."

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

He remains a thunderclap from the baseline, but has options other than ferocious groundstrokes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 7, 2025

Reaser’s laugh erupts without warning, big and loud like a thunderclap; Harner’s is equally boisterous.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

A local resident told Yonhap that he had been watching television at home when the explosion, which sounded "like a thunderclap", shook the house.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025

I watched him pushing out his lips, trying to gather back his pride, his anger, all that thunderclap he’d first come striding in here with.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd