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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it hit me like a thunderbolt .
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Dad clapped his hands over his cheeks when the thunderbolt struck.
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His public outbursts of temper and his oratorical thunderbolts of defiance were likewise psychological reinforcements for a person who needed them.
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Like a thunderbolt it had come, just when he looked like losing it all.
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Pollux stabbed Lynceus, and Zeus struck Idas with his thunderbolt .
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Thunder and lightning are caused when Zeus hurls his thunderbolt .
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To her his departure had come like a cruel thunderbolt .