BLOCKBUSTERS Synonyms: 87 Similar and Opposite Words

blockbusters

noun

plural of blockbuster

as in successes

a person or thing that is successful the movie is expected to be the biggest blockbuster of the summer

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as in whales

something that is unusually large and powerful a blockbuster of a fighter plane

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Recent Examples of blockbusters Student films, tiny independent movies, major blockbusters, network sitcoms. — Luke Barnett, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026 Murmurs of surprises and spoilers—commonplace for blockbusters but hardly typical for documentaries—spread like wildfire in the lead-up to the release. — Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026 The second half of the bill was a screening of The Exorcist, which had long cemented its reputation as one of the most intense, influential blockbusters of the previous decade. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026 The trade-deadline blockbusters and late-night deals all seemed at the time like the Sixers were swinging for the fences. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Four back-to-back blockbusters—One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The China Syndrome, Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile—had proven that. — Michael Douglas, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026 Paramount will have one of it most profitable years in more than 15 years, but that’s come more from trimming costs than fielding blockbusters. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026 Kyle Stanley, a media scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno who has studied the MCU, noted that Iron Man was a lower-level hero when the company decided to build a movie around him, and Downey was not the kind of star who anchored blockbusters. — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026 Novo, whose shares have plummeted over the past two years amid intensifying competition in the anti-obesity space, is under pressure to find a successor to its semaglutide franchise, which includes mega-blockbusters Wegovy and Ozempic. — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026

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Noun

The novel’s focus is on their struggles more than their successes.

— Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2026
Electron has made 97 flights to date, with 56 consecutive successes.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of successes

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Organisms not resistant to this onslaught—anything from microbes and crops to whales and humans—would experience an almost violently severe sunburn.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Five mammal groups – primates, carnivores, whales, elephants and rhinos – received 86% of available funding, despite accounting for only one-third of threatened mammal projects.

— David Ginsburg, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of whales

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On October 24, 2006, Taylor Swift was released—the debut album by a 16-year-old with blonde curls, cowboy boots, and a special talent for turning heartbreak into hits.

— Ilaria Perrotta, Vanity Fair, 24 Oct. 2026
Jackson Chourio and William Contreras each had two hits, including an RBI single.

— Steve Megaree, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of hits

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In a report this month that sharply criticized data center giants including Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, several Senate Democrats said companies have used nondisclosure agreements to freeze out the public.

— Marc Levy, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
In a report this month that sharply criticized data center giants including Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, several Senate Democrats said companies have used non-disclosure agreements to freeze out the public.

— Marc Levy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026

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CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks were our two biggest winners last week — both up more than 11% as news of the security flaws in the PHP programming language touched off a global security scramble.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
Of the 13 previous races at COTA since 2012, 11 winners have started on the front row.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of winners

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Yet the greatest of these monsters is Poseidon himself, the great disruptor, the earth-shaker and master of the stormy seas.

— Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
First, as medical courier Bryan Hodukavich in Resident Evil, he was forced to contend with an onslaught of mutant zombie monsters.

— Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of monsters

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Siebel Newsom said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that tech titans need to be held accountable for the harm occurring to women and girls with their tools.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
As long as demand for computing power exceeds the supply, these Big Tech titans will have the incentive to keep building.

— John Towfighi, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

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