blockbusters

noun

plural of blockbuster
1
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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2
as in whales
something that is unusually large and powerful a blockbuster of a fighter plane

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Recent Examples of blockbusters At the same time that audiences are embracing big blockbusters on the biggest screens, the theatrical industry has also seen a return of moviegoers for smaller-budget and genre films. — Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026 This summer has been notable for big blockbusters, but which mid-budget movies were a hit? — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 But an actor who came up on huge blockbusters like Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean was unprepared for the speed at which the German auteur was prepared to move. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026 In the ’90s, when blockbusters reigned supreme, department stores were the category’s main point of sale but today consumers buy fragrances online, and via specialty beauty and niche fragrance shops. — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026 But unlike The Eras Tour, starring the biggest musician in the world, the company is not necessarily aiming for blockbusters, and will instead focus on small and medium sized films. — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026 The creative team spoke out, as did industry folks who’d seen the film, like Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the directing team behind blockbusters like Project Hail Mary and the Spider-Verse movies. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026 The *Endgame Encore* re-release, with its new footage and vibrant color grade, serves as a key test, relying on certified screens to deliver its enhanced visual experience and potentially boost future Disney blockbusters. — Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 While blockbusters like the Jaws trilogy and 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are joining the lineup, dozens of movies and shows will leave throughout the month, including plenty of Oscar-winning films and Emmy-winning series. — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blockbusters
  1. successes
  2. whales
  3. hits
  4. giants
  5. winners
  6. dinosaurs
  7. monsters
  8. titans
Noun
  • Even those successes are now outshone by three straight seasons outside the playoffs, including 6-11 last year, his first losing campaign since the postseason runs.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • There have been some modest successes in tracking down looted antiquities.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of successes
Noun
  • Each summer, thousands of beluga whales migrate to the mouth of the Churchill River, to feed on small fish and nurse their young.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of whales
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  • Michael Busch and Miguel Amaya each doubled and singled for the Cubs, who finished with 13 hits.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Reliever Seth Halvorsen gave up three hits without recording an out in the ninth, but the Dodgers had built up enough of a lead to weather a Washington (67-76) comeback attempt.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of hits
Noun
  • The sector includes some of the tech giants most sensitive to interest rates, because of the hundreds of billions being borrowed to build AI data centers.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026
  • With the rise of domestic e-commerce giants like Taobao and Pinduoduo, Zhu’s team has moved from solely operating brick-and-mortar stores, to building a strong omnichannel network.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • Inter Double winners in Italy, Inter have lost Denzel Dumfries but supplemented their squad with a bunch of Englishmen, namely the ‘Three Lions’ of John Stones, Djed Spence and Curtis Jones.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The four group winners progress directly to Thursday’s quarterfinals, while the teams that finish second and third face playoffs Tuesday or Wednesday to determine which join the group winners already through to the final eight.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of winners
Noun
  • When a massive asteroid impact triggered a global extinction 66 million years ago, almost all dinosaurs and early bird lineages died out.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The feather dates back to the late Cretaceous, right before the great extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs and a large swath of other species.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • Their first game was Crawl, a dungeon-crawler game where your friends control the monsters.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
  • There will be no B-movie monsters wearing terrible prosthetics, no scripts full of non sequiturs, no glitchy graphics.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • The potential scale of what it has been granted could make the company one of the biggest oil titans in the world.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Remember the many tech titans standing behind him at his 2025 inauguration?
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of titans

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“Blockbusters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blockbusters. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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