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maelstrom

noun as in agitation

noun as in whirlpool

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The dealmaking frenzy, which has drawn much of the technology industry into the maelstrom, has contributed to growing fears that a bubble is building in AI infrastructure.

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France dealt with similar conditions in Exeter against Ireland and, by a smaller margin, also found a way through the maelstrom.

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But politics found them, and provided what may have seemed like clarity in a maelstrom of anything but.

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“It was a maelstrom of topic A to topic G to topic C to topic Q,” said a senior SSA official who was in the room.

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It was into this maelstrom that Potter stepped.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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