bomb threat
noun
: a message saying that a bomb is located in a particular place
Someone called in a bomb threat, so the building was evacuated.
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His family went through a scare earlier this year with a bomb threat at their Stamford home.
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025
In an unrelated incident, an Air India flight from Phuket in Thailand headed to Delhi made an emergency landing on Friday after a bomb threat was received on board, airport authorities said.
—Sudipto Ganguly, USA Today, 14 June 2025
In a Justice Department news release Friday, U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. said John Charles Robinson, 23, of Monroe is accused of using a cellphone to call Spirit Airlines with false information about a bomb threat to Flight 2145 departing from Detroit Metro bound for Los Angeles.
—Alexandra Koch , Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
In the other, a Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to sending a bomb threat in February 2021 to an election official in the Arizona Secretary of State’s office.
—Colleen Slevin, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025
In an unrelated incident, an Air India flight from Phuket in Thailand headed to Delhi made an emergency landing on Friday after a bomb threat was received on board, airport authorities said.
—Sudipto Ganguly, USA Today, 14 June 2025
In a Justice Department news release Friday, U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. said John Charles Robinson, 23, of Monroe is accused of using a cellphone to call Spirit Airlines with false information about a bomb threat to Flight 2145 departing from Detroit Metro bound for Los Angeles.
—Alexandra Koch , Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
In the other, a Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to sending a bomb threat in February 2021 to an election official in the Arizona Secretary of State’s office.
—Colleen Slevin, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
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