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Recent Examples of thunderously
David Sims explores how Robert Duvall could carry a film thunderously, yet also stand out in the subtlest of roles.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thunderously
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Despite that underlying tension, kids play on the street outside while the large family has a dynamic like any other — noisily squabbling, joking, or in the case of the matriarchal grandmother, Mariam (Hiam Abbass), preparing a meal in a kitchen plagued by constant utility outages.
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As Lurie was transitioning into the mayor’s office, union workers were noisily picketing outside several of the largest hotels in San Francisco.
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England fans accustomed to the relentless pace of the Premier League have loudly booed hydration breaks at the World Cup, but Thomas Tuchel’s side benefited from them after going down early in a comeback win over the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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On Tuesday night, Denver voters rejected that pitch — as loudly as possible.
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Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith’s screenplay is littered with exaggerated stereotypes just waiting to be boisterously subverted.
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These movies now add up to a canon greater than the sum of their boisterously funny, deliriously inventive parts.
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Fresh, provocative and uproariously funny.
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Cunk on Earth plays like a Daily Show segment spread out across five hours, in which viewers watch the earnest — and ofttimes exasperated — talking heads field inane questions from Morgan’s uproariously daft Cunk.
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Tom Cruise sat elbow to elbow with David Beckham; UCLA and Los Angeles Lakers star Kareem Abdul Jabbar got a rousing ovation and Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart was lustily booed.
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Helen wept quietly, believing her world had come to an end, while Alice, always comfortable with attention, cried more lustily.
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Ignoring the voters’ will If history repeats again, the district court will refuse to enforce the anti-gerrymandering Fair District amendments that voters approved resoundingly 16 years ago.
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The answer, resoundingly, was no.
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In a statement, the soccer federation vociferously pushed back.
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Which helps explain why companies complain vociferously about the absence of these skills in entry-level workers.
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Ukraine’s accession process was long stymied by Hungary, under stridently nationalist former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who was considered Russia’s strongest ally in Europe and possible threat to the EU project.
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Environmentalists have repeatedly and stridently pointed out bright lights disorient nesting sea turtles and their young.
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“Thunderously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thunderously. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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