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: extraordinarily impressive or effective
a smashing performance
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Doubts cast However, not everyone saw the draft as a smashing success.
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Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 26 May 2026
Her book was a smashing success, selling half a million copies in its first week.
—Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 21 May 2026
The project is described as Twain’s most autobiographical work yet — a record that reconnects the superstar with her Northern Ontario upbringing while still embracing the genre-smashing instincts that made her one of modern country music’s biggest crossover artists.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 13 May 2026
Their mission, a smashing success, tested a NASA rocket and spacecraft on the first human flight into deep space in more than five decades.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026
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Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 26 May 2026
Her book was a smashing success, selling half a million copies in its first week.
—Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 21 May 2026
The project is described as Twain’s most autobiographical work yet — a record that reconnects the superstar with her Northern Ontario upbringing while still embracing the genre-smashing instincts that made her one of modern country music’s biggest crossover artists.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 13 May 2026
Their mission, a smashing success, tested a NASA rocket and spacecraft on the first human flight into deep space in more than five decades.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026
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“Smashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smashing. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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