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Recent Examples of slam-bang And then comes the slam-bang, run-and-hide climax, which finally makes the insidious threat tangible. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024 Dowd, who holds a master’s degree from New York’s Bernard Baruch School of Business and earns more than $40,000 a year [about $225,000 in 2024 dollars], sees the manhunt more as a nuts-and-bolts bureaucratic exercise than a slam-bang cops-and-robbers adventure. Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024 The coup de grâce is the credits sequence that follows this slam-bang cold open. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2024 Glover and Sloane balance the pacing between missions and slam-bang set-pieces and the quieter moments, like John and Jane’s regular pillow-talk debriefs. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2024 The slam-bang stuff in this picture is too tediously routine. Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023 Its slam-bang visual pileup plays against a long, steady stream of freight trains rolling past behind it, day and night, in a manufactured river transferring tons of cargo from the Port of Los Angeles to distribution centers to the east. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slam-bang
Adjective
  • The crowd welcomed him with a loud ovation and cheered him on numerous times during the match.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2025
  • There has been a loud flirtation with Aaron Rodgers that Adofo-Mensah has danced around quite a bit.
    Steve Silverman, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But there’s no deafening scream of a Formula 1 race.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The genteel tranquility of his $10 million estate is shattered by the deafening scream of jet traffic with the regularity of commercial airline schedules.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But with a will Strike all your harps and set them ringing; On hill and heath Let every breath Throw all its power into singing!
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
  • His ringing, carefree laugh mixed with soaring rhetoric about democracy, working families and hope.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Tinnitus is when someone hears ringing in the ears—or a buzzing or roaring sound.
    Carley Millhone, Health, 20 Oct. 2024
  • On her first day of filming, Ronan was thrown into a lively quickstep number in a roaring dance hall.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • But beneath driving rain and amid a thunderous atmosphere, the home side had staged a stirring fightback, scoring four goals without reply to seize control of their destiny in the competition.
    Tom Williams, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The lackluster reaction in the room continued with Scarlett Johansson, who earned more slack-jawed stares than thunderous applause.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Slam-bang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slam-bang. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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