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as in success
a person or thing that is successful
the movie is expected to be the biggest blockbuster of the summer
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2
as in whale
something that is unusually large and powerful
a blockbuster of a fighter plane
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Recent Examples of blockbuster
The 62-year-old Oscar nominee starred in the 2003 blockbuster alongside Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, playing an Angel who goes bad.
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Michael Nied, People.com, 13 May 2025
With sphincter-tightening set pieces, blockbusters do not get much better than this.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 13 May 2025
Recent blockbuster bestsellers like Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia have put strength training on equal footing—or even more important than—aerobic exercise and nutrition as vital to our long-term health.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Avengers: Doomsday, the first new Avengers film since the blockbuster 2019 release of Avengers: Endgame, is set to follow on May 1, 2026.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 May 2025
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Michael Nied, People.com, 13 May 2025
With sphincter-tightening set pieces, blockbusters do not get much better than this.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 13 May 2025
Recent blockbuster bestsellers like Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia have put strength training on equal footing—or even more important than—aerobic exercise and nutrition as vital to our long-term health.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Avengers: Doomsday, the first new Avengers film since the blockbuster 2019 release of Avengers: Endgame, is set to follow on May 1, 2026.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blockbuster
Noun
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Ole Miss had success against Root for the second time this season.—
Matt Jones,
Arkansas Online,
24 May 2025
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There is an even spread of success and failure, of ethnicities and inherited dysfunction, along with a predictable checklist of social problems endemic to deprivation.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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Horrifying images of dead albatrosses with clusters of colorful plastic spilling from their bodies, turtles eating plastic bags and whales entangled in plastic fishing nets are testament to how this pollution is affecting marine life.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
23 May 2025
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Examples include barnacles growing on turtle shells or a whale.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
Noun
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He gets paid for hits and this creates hits for him.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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Wednesday’s first season was one of Netflix’s biggest hits.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Now, as a Wall Street giant suddenly flips from gold to bitcoin, the bitcoin price is braced for a huge week that will see U.S. president Donald Trump’s vice president JD Vance speak alongside Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks at the Bitcoin 2025 conference.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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The gas giant's influential place in shaping our solar system is what intrigued the researchers to take a closer look it it.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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Dark Universe is where monsters from Universal’s classic horror films – like Frankenstein, Dracula and the Invisible Man – live on in the village of Darkmoor.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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Another one of Universal’s monsters features prominently in the Curse of the Werewolf spinning coaster.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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In it, actors including Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali face off against some of the most terrifying dinosaurs ever featured in the franchise.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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The team brought in an animatronic dinosaur from China, which had to be durable enough to use for stunts when Ellie climbs on top of it.—
Matt Minton,
Variety,
19 May 2025
Noun
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Colossal has said their vision of restoring the woolly mammoth would not only prove that a massive extinct animal can be brought back but that the mammoth, if it could be reinserted into the Arctic region, would improve the ecosystem and help combat global warming.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2025
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At about nine feet tall at the shoulder and seven tons, Mammut were a little shorter and stockier-looking than mammoths.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Blockbuster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blockbuster. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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