bolt
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It turns out his death was much more complicated than a random bolt of lightning, and Sister, then a teenager, was involved in ways she has never revealed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Fireworks are also traumatizing for pets, particularly dogs, which tremble and even bolt from their homes in fear.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
The backstory of the works by the composers who perished is obviously compelling, but the lightning bolt that struck Conlon first was the music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
For reference, the Delorean time machine in Back to the Future needed 1.21 gigawatts — a figure so comically large it could only be harnessed from plutonium or a bolt of lighting.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
As Samir turned and started down the hill, he said, “Sold, at one bolt, one godforsaken life.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Wartsila also recommended tightening bolts and locking them in place with superglue to improve reliability, particularly involving air leakages, failed silencers and solenoid coils becoming loose.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Workers will install 350 bolts for containment booms in the east of the gulf.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Chinese nuts and bolts quicker than Usain Bolt.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
I wasn’t able to get downtown so I would go to Home Depot and buy rings and bolts and I would just put them on the clothes and build things around it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
“The plane shook violently,” he later said, “rattling and clanking as if someone had thrown a bucket of nuts and bolts into the engine.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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