Bombshell
Bombshell noun - Something that makes a strong impression because it is so unexpected.
Hit
Both words in one sentence
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They talk about him over a John Doe that got hit by a bus...and then the bombshell that John Doe is George, who'd left early to start his basic and saved a girl from being hit by that bus, taking the blow himself and dying.
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Then puberty hit her like a bombshell (not the first in the series), and so she started wearing a traditional Hungarian folk dress and a flower in her hair.
Source: Tertiary Sexual Characteristics -
The first time is when she's framed for assault on live television, left a Hero with Bad Publicity, disqualified from the tournament by Ironwood, and is then hit with the bombshell that her team-mate Blake doesn't believe her pleas of innocence.
Source: Tender Tears
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