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Recent Examples of thunderclap Even the possibility that golf’s turmoil could end with an antitrust whimper, rather than a regulatory thunderclap, shows how much the environment has shifted over the last two years. Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025 The phenomenon, which local television station KSDK reported was heard throughout the day Sunday, sounded more muffled than a regular thunderclap. Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025 The historic nature of that thunderclap moment wasn’t lost on the 34-year-old entrepreneur. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024 What prepared you for the thunderclap in the midst of the backbreaking toil? Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for thunderclap
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thunderclap
Noun
  • Reno piled more than 40 clap tracks onto the production, though the volume of parts involved isn’t necessarily evident in the final cut.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Acousticians often use a hand clap as a cheap substitute for pricey equipment to make acoustic measurements in architecture.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Marsai Martin’s chignon and a Josephine Baker-esque side bang meant business, closing out the week with professional elegance.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Those events will fling material in all directions, triggering the same double bang in the other white dwarf.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Many on the list, which was shared with NPR, were for environmental justice projects, including one grant that supported initiatives such as flood mitigation in southwest Virginia, a deep red part of the commonwealth where communities have been shaped by the coal industry's booms and busts.
    Michael Copley, NPR, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The company has benefitted from a boom in AI servers as a key supplier of high bandwidth memory, or HBM — a type of DRAM used in artificial intelligence servers — to clients such as the U.S. AI darling Nvidia.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The blast occurred as Iran began a third round of nuclear talks with the United States in Oman, although the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear.
    Reuters, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The nuclear fallout from the blast was around a hundred times more lethal than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Jeff Bezos falls after Blue Origin New Shepard capsule lands Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos took a tumble in Texas while circling the New Shepard capsule that landed safely after carrying fiancee Lauren Sanchez, pop star Katy Perry and others to space, Monday.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • On Monday morning, CBS Mornings host Gayle King, pop star Katy Perry, journalist Lauren Sánchez, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and film producer Kerianne Flynn traveled to space.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When Golden took the stage, there was a roar of cheers and fireworks exploded over the city.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • While the roar of the engines and smell of burning rubber are very familiar to fans of stock car racing, there’s a distinct allure about NHRA events.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Scheffler’s awkward interaction with Rory McIlroy, inside Butler Cabin after McIlroy completed the career slam with a playoff win over Justin Rose on Sunday, left many golf fans scratching their heads.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • McIlroy joins an elite players club and is the first since 2000 to complete the slam.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There has been a crash on I-35 from I-29/US-71/Exit 8 to MO-1/Antioch Road/Exit 8.
    Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2025
  • According to the arrest warrant affidavit, the charges stem from a crash and multiple near-misses on May 17, 2024, as state police had I-291 shut down in the area of Interstate 91 in connection with an unspecified investigation.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025

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