blockbusters

noun

plural of blockbuster
1
as in successes
a person or thing that is successful the movie is expected to be the biggest blockbuster of the summer

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2
as in whales
something that is unusually large and powerful a blockbuster of a fighter plane

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Recent Examples of blockbusters Paramount will have one of it most profitable years in more than 15 years, but that’s come more from trimming costs than fielding blockbusters. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026 Kyle Stanley, a media scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno who has studied the MCU, noted that Iron Man was a lower-level hero when the company decided to build a movie around him, and Downey was not the kind of star who anchored blockbusters. — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026 Novo, whose shares have plummeted over the past two years amid intensifying competition in the anti-obesity space, is under pressure to find a successor to its semaglutide franchise, which includes mega-blockbusters Wegovy and Ozempic. — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026 Universal’s impressive theatrical year has been bolstered by such blockbusters as The Odyssey, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Michael, which represent three of the five movies this year to have reached $1 billion globally. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026 At least four of the films must be independent films and 20% must be blockbusters. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026 This summer has been notable for big blockbusters, but which mid-budget movies were a hit? — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 But an actor who came up on huge blockbusters like Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean was unprepared for the speed at which the German auteur was prepared to move. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026 In the ’90s, when blockbusters reigned supreme, department stores were the category’s main point of sale but today consumers buy fragrances online, and via specialty beauty and niche fragrance shops. — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blockbusters
  1. successes
  2. whales
  3. hits
  4. giants
  5. winners
  6. dinosaurs
  7. monsters
  8. titans
Noun
  • Surely those seeking to restrict access to energy drinks can draw on these successes.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Still, despite these successes, Wall Street is getting tired of waiting for the turnaround efforts to bring Nike back into growth mode.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of successes
Noun
  • For decades, the seabirds have pecked at whales surfacing to breathe, gorging on their skin and blubber.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act remove some of the legal basis for enforcing rules for noisy seismic surveys, speed limits on vessels and restrictions on shipping routes designed to help protect the whales from harm.
    — Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • May 9 Atlanta 7, at Dodgers 2 Blake Snell gave up five runs in three innings and the Braves got 12 hits overall, 11 of them singles.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Downstairs, Angelica focuses on all-day European brasserie hits—rabbit rillettes, gravlax, and pickled cucumber salad—while the Bar Gambit leans moodier and more underground, attracting a particular post-work creative Fitzrovia crowd.
    — Katharine Sohn, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of hits
Noun
  • Andersen predicts security concerns will ultimately keep China’s turbine giants from conquering the continent.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • As rural communities across the United States wage intensifying battles to keep AI-computing data centers out of their backyards, some tech giants are mulling methods that could sidestep such local resentment — by sending the facilities to space.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • Take a resident who voted for only one of the 10 winners but for two of the slate’s three candidates.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The real winners are focused on whether the tools are actually improving business outcomes, starting with the customer and working backwards to identify where the tech can make the biggest impact.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of winners
Noun
  • Its discovery adds to our understanding of one of the world’s premier fossil deposits and what life in Illinois looked like even before dinosaurs.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026
  • For the dinosaurs that survived the initial blast, the world became an unforgiving wilderness of starvation and severe climate shifts.
    — Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • The main three projects — The Mummy, The Loudest Voice and Unabomber — each involve monsters in various forms.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The world has seen many hurricanes rapidly intensify in recent years, strengthening from relatively weak storms into destructive monsters in a matter of hours.
    — Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • But compared to galaxies, which can host 100 billion similarly sized star systems, even these cosmic titans are relatively small in stature.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The guest list includes Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, among other tech titans staking out positions on whether more safeguards are needed in the race to develop artificial intelligence.
    — Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
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“Blockbusters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blockbusters. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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