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verb

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Recent Examples of dynamite
Adjective
Joe, as should have been expected, is now dynamite. Fred Katz, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 But he’s been dynamite with Eichel on a line with Ivan Barbashev (currently injured) this season. Pierre Lebrun, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
There were also schemes to dynamite President Kennedy’s car and to car- bomb President George H. W. Bush in Kuwait in 1993. Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2024 In a procedural ruling yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court dynamited more than a century of practice by letting Texas move forward with a law that effectively gives it immigration enforcement power, handing extremist Gov. Greg Abbott a victory that could have massive reverberations. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for dynamite
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dynamite
Adjective
  • This is an excellent time to invest, pitch a creative idea or spruce up your portfolio.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 5 June 2025
  • Robin will make an excellent addition to our great Kentucky State Senate Majority!
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • Mescudi's May 22 testimony included claims that Combs blew up a Porsche car belonging to the Grammy-winning rapper at his Hollywood Hills home with a Molotov cocktail.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • So blow up those pool floaties, get outside, and log online?
    Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Esquivel didn’t allow an earned run in a terrific game-one performance against Lovejoy.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 June 2025
  • With no wind or other elements for the players to confront, both produced some terrific tennis for stretches.
    Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • In 2012, Texas Wesleyan went to the city’s historic and cultural landmarks commission seeking permission to demolish the home for further campus expansion, but were denied.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
  • Goldschmidt has demolished the NL Central in his career, with a slash line of .291/.388/.527 in almost 550 games played.
    Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Erica’s great grandfather was one of a group of 15 that formed a wine cooperative in Sant’Antioco in 1932, the first in Sardinia.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • The ‘bomb squad’ was a negative distraction at the start of this season but the number involved in it could be even greater this time around.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 1 June 2025
Verb
  • Tornadoes can tear down a home and hurricanes can flood entire towns.
    Thomas E. Weber, Time, 6 June 2025
  • In 2023, Gloria abandoned an unpopular plan to implement Senate Bill 10, which would have allowed a single-family home to be torn down and replaced with a new structure of up to three stories with up to 10 units in much of the city.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • He’s been awesome and the rest of the guys have been awesome.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
  • There was an awesome sequence where Finn Balor missed the Coup de Grace, followed by a stomp on Balor by Rollins and a Helluva Kick on Rollins by Zayn.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea from a group of Native American activists and supporters to block a copper mining company from destroying an Apache religious site.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 27 May 2025
  • During the week of my embed, the Russian military identified and destroyed a few of the Vampire pilots’ positions.
    Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025

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“Dynamite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dynamite. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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