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Recent Examples of thunderously
A lot of this is due to a thunderously loud W16 that pumps out 1,578 hp and 1,180.
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Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2025
There are a lot of subtle winks like that in the series, including someone other than Kyle MacLachlan playing a character named Agent Cooper, and even a reference to Hawke’s hilarious, thunderously great performance as John Brown in The Good Lord Bird.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2025
There are a lot of subtle winks like that in the series, including someone other than Kyle MacLachlan playing a character named Agent Cooper, and even a reference to Hawke’s hilarious, thunderously great performance as John Brown in The Good Lord Bird.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thunderously
Adverb
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Sparrows that had flown down into the roofless atrium chirped noisily.—
Daniyal Mueenuddin,
New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2025
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Fireworks were bursting noisily in the sky of Inwood that night.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Witnesses told officers the couple had been loudly arguing near the east side of the walking bridge at the lake.—
Timia Cobb
Breaking News Reporter,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Jan. 2026
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While the French film industry, like Hollywood, is overwhelmingly liberal (think of the walkouts at the César Awards when accused statutory rapist Roman Polanski won best director in 2020), some of the biggest Gallic stars of yesteryear have loudly bucked the trend.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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About 150 people attended the meeting, and boisterously applauded when speakers condemned the town’s less stringent rules.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
16 Jan. 2026
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Chalamet joked as the camera cut to O'Leary applauding boisterously.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Everyone in the break room laughs uproariously.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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First the musical is uproariously funny, and O’Brien said its creative team keep adding fresh jokes to the touring show all the time.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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One play after a Jalen Hurts fumble — and only three plays into the second half — the Philadelphia Eagles were trailing the Los Angeles Rams 26-7 in their NFC championship game rematch, with an offensive effort that was lustily booed by the home crowd.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC news,
21 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The Ryan Odom era of Virginia basketball is off to a resoundingly positive start, and even a triple-overtime loss to archrival Virginia Tech has not cooled hopes of competing for a regular-season championship.—
Jim Root,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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Proposition 82 was resoundingly defeated by California voters.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
15 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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Unused to the diet, heat and poor hygiene, Ramírez fell ill, though neither diarrhea nor stomach cramps prevented him from complaining vociferously about his accommodation, arguing with his instructors about tactics and questioning his hosts’ more grandiose claims of military prowess.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Jan. 2026
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By coming so vociferously to the shooter’s defense, Vance full-throatedly committed himself to the MAGA mission of enforcing respect by any means necessary.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
12 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The White House stridently disagreed with Conley.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Nov. 2025
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And Bina remains as stridently anti-Joanne as ever, banning her from the Roklovs’ weekly Shabbat dinner and blaming her when Noah is passed over for the promotion.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Thunderously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thunderously. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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