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Recent Examples of wham
Noun
Goalscorer Asamoah Gyan took the resulting penalty, only to wham it off the top of the bar. SI.com, 21 June 2019
Verb
There’s an understood language of action that marries really close-up, sharp inserts, the propulsion of rapid editing, wham-bam sound effects, and visual carnage to create excitement. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2025 Easy drinking 100% Merlot with 14% alcohol with flavors that include dark licorice, cinnamon and nutmeg and a wham of a finish. Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025 Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno and company made their wham-bam-glam debut on ‘Roxy Music’ 50 years ago. Jill Krajewski, SPIN, 8 June 2022 Perhaps my overall disappointment stems from this pilot stiffness, but the more likely culprit is the standard brashness of American reality television, which is less cinema vérité and more wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am. Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2020 But the movie, for all its retrograde politics and wham-bam machismo, can also be slick, silly fun — a giddy exercise in freewheeling nihilism, played to the hilt. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2020 The movie comes at you with a quick, wham-bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wham
Noun
  • The powerful primate makes contact with the glass wall with a heavy thud, which leaves the group near the wall gasping and yelping in fear.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Timpani, bass drums, and piano follow with a concussive thud.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That conflict comes to a head in the middle of campus in the film’s most intense scene, as Alma verbally belittles and demeans her until Maggie snaps and suddenly smacks her mentor.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The previous year, another Hall of Famer, Dave Winfield, smacked the series-winning double in the top of the 11th inning of Game 6 against the Braves at old Atlanta Fulton-County Stadium.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The heist deals a huge blow to one of the most popular museums in the world, which houses valuable works like Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and has drawn some 9 million visitors in recent years.
    NPR, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
  • So, after scans revealed a back injury in July, to be without Cummins’ captaincy for any length of time would represent a considerable blow to his side’s Ashes hopes.
    Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Fall boating can mean peaceful days on Arkansas' large reservoirs while many hunters begin to hit the woods instead of the water.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Apple’s iPhone surge Shares of Apple surged 4% to hit a new record on Monday after a report of surprisingly strong sales of its new iPhone 17.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Skullcandy Crusher Evo headphones are all about feeling every thump, and beat.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Another Boras client, Cody Bellinger, was nearing the end of his second season in Chicago, which did not deliver as much thump as his MVP-level 2023 campaign.
    Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On the other hand, an accumulation of those particles around the poles could throw out of whack the tropical monsoon system, the researchers explain.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • One is a simple whack-a-mole game.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There are heated confrontations and a slap, and Alma ruins her shot at tenure after stealing a colleague's prescription pad to get more pain meds.
    Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Butner got a wrist slap sentence of three months, and will probably be out any day now.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Among the fitness and wellness-oriented features are boxing and Pilates facilities, an indoor pool, sauna and steam rooms, and three immersion pools ranging from cold to hot.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
  • One of the things people are normally scared when doing this type of trilogy and being in this type of project is that you can get boxed into this type of YA projects, romance and that type of stuff.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Wham.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wham. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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