thunderbolt
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Ermedin Demirovic unleashed a thunderbolt in the 90th minute to send Stuttgart into the top four with a 1-0 home win over Freiburg in the Bundesliga on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
The attack fell like a thunderbolt on the country’s tightly knit Jewish community.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
For me, it was a thunderbolt of thrill followed by pure abject terror that we might disappoint or “not have something good for her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
The higher-for-longer inflation predicament has hit the U.S. housing market like a thunderbolt.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
As soon as the men left the island a thunderbolt shattered the ship.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
True to his word, he was best when fresh, slipping straight back into bowling thunderbolts.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 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
