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tub-thumps

verb

present tense third-person singular of tub-thump

as in announces

to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively the studio is going all out to tub-thump its latest summer blockbuster

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Technical debt at least announces itself through slow releases and frustrated engineers.

— Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
The inflation print comes before the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee announces its latest policy update on Thursday.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026

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But then Anton brings up the idea of Talia and Brooke using him as their sperm donor and Talia fully cracks up.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
During one particularly fun moment shared by the LPGA Tour on Instagram, Clark cracks up at Cunningham's energetic approach to the sport — which ended in her accidentally hitting a fan with the ball.

— Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025

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Hamm also created the Harold Hamm International Prize for Biomedical Research in Diabetes, which recognizes and promotes lasting achievements in diabetes research.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
Rather than promising to make people rich through high-risk investments, Ramsey promotes a simple system of paying off debt, building an emergency fund, and investing for retirement.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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The movie blows up, and so are do lives—in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.

— Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 21 Sep. 2026
John gets the upper hand and nearly takes the ring, before one of Zoe’s satellite weapons blows up half the motel, forcing Hal to use what little charge is left in the ring to protect himself and John.

— Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of blows up

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Thus trumpets the tagline for Nicole Kidman’s assignation with Constantin Brancusi’s bronze and gold leaf Danaïde (1913), circulated online this past spring in advance of the work’s auction.

— Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Unsurprisingly, the Obama Presidential Center trumpets the achievements of President Barack Obama and does not focus on what he did not get done, nor, indeed, what got rolled back by subsequent administrations, which is a great deal.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026

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