thumping
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At night, queues snake around the block outside nightclubs where DJ’s spin thumping house music for big-spending revelers, their faces sculpted by surgery and tanned by the sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
As exit polls put the Alternative for Germany's vote share at a thumping 44 percent, jubilant scenes erupted at a post-election party in Magdeburg, capital of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Although the stock recovered later, it still ended the day with another thumping 10% loss.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
And at a thumping Tollcross on Friday, they stood together on the blocks waiting for the first big swimming final of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to start.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Yeah, I can tell her,” I say, my heart thumping.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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