rushes

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Appeared in the May 17, 2024, print edition as 'France Rushes Reinforcements To Riot-Struck New Caledonia'.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2024

Rushes to judgment seldom come at you any faster than the commentary about the killing of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee in a deserted neighborhood of San Francisco early on the morning of April 4.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Rushes and sugar cane wave in breezes cooled by the pools, which are ringed by tamarisk trees and other native plants.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2013

Rushes of air would create firestorms with “strong winds of up to hurricane force,” far more intense than the deadly firestorms created in German and Japanese cities during World War II.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2013

There was assembled there flat Boats to take us across, and Oyster Boys to pole them along through the Rushes.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson