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verb

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Recent Examples of thwack
Noun
The serene vibes are momentarily interrupted by the thwack of a Louisville Slugger. Alex Scordelis, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2024 At this level, the chile heat races across the taste buds as a first sensation and then backs off, balancing with sweetness (rock sugar is a common ingredient) and a vinegary thwack. Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
Verb
With three classes of accommodation on board, passengers can sit at the windows of vintage cabins paneled with polished cherrywood and draped with blush pink silks as the train rumbles through rubber and palm plantations, giant leaves thwacking the sides. Monisha Rajesh, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2024 No more thwacking away at cold dough on your countertop. Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for thwack
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thwack
Noun
  • In the footage, the wooden wall can be seen falling forward with a thud, while two vertical cables hang behind, apparently slack.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27 June 2025
  • The message landed with a thud among prominent conservatives on social media.
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • President Donald Trump, left, claps as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk prepares to depart after a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show on October 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
  • The season’s most moving episode returns to the question at the heart of Ellie and Joel’s relationship. count those claps 9:07 p.m.
    Britina Cheng, Vulture, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • These nimble vehicles are built to precise specs, and capturing racing footage from the driver's point of view isn't as simple as slapping a GoPro on and calling it a day.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 16 June 2025
  • The experience was shared on Reddit, where the passenger detailed how the person seated behind him, in first class nonetheless, repeatedly tapped and slapped the person's head and hat to awaken him to help retrieve a lost earbud.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • On my final evening after the game drive, a flute whines and drums thump in the distance.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 23 May 2025
  • As its infectious message, hip hop hook, gentle-against-forceful thump, radiates further into the zeitgeist expect it be heard everywhere.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • Sabrina Carpenter rarely strays from her signature look, which is arguably long, super-voluminous hair at various levels of curl, curtain bangs, full brows, and brownish-pink lips.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 27 June 2025
  • Festivities end with a bang with fireworks at the lakefront at 9:30 p.m. Glencoe’s celebration takes place across July 3 and July 4, with the beach closed on July 3 and open to season pass holders only on July 4.
    Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • The Giants haven’t had a 30-homer hitter in a single season since Bonds smacked 45 in 2004.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 16 June 2025
  • Fifteen years ago, smack in the middle of Barack Obama's first term, amid the rapid rise of social media and a slow recovery from the Great Recession, a professor at the University of Connecticut issued a stark warning: the United States was heading into a decade of growing political instability.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • The Senate parliamentarian's guidance has delivered several blows to key GOP provisions, including an effort to exclude undocumented immigrants from receiving Medicaid benefits and a plan to lower provider taxes, which states use to help fund their portion of Medicaid costs.
    June 27, CBS News, 27 June 2025
  • The Senate parliamentarian has advised that a Medicaid provider tax overhaul central to President Donald Trump’s tax cut and spending bill does not adhere to the chamber’s procedural rules, delivering a crucial blow as Republicans rush to finish the package this week.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Amid the cottagecore boom of the pandemic—as well as Gelman’s general start-up savvy—the store became a thing.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 25 June 2025
  • The company has seen soaring demand in the high bandwidth memory, or HBM, market due to the artificial intelligence boom.
    Ari Levy, CNBC, 25 June 2025

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“Thwack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thwack. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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