storm
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Mehdi Mohammadi, a strategic adviser to chief Iranian negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, described the current stalemate Tuesday as the calm before the storm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines canceled 54 inter-island flights and 11 trans-Pacific flights Saturday because of the storm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The storm is expected to either make landfall on or pass close to the southern tip of Big Island on Saturday, before continuing west.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Hawaii was menaced by Hurricane Fausto last month, before the storm weakened and skirted north of the island chain.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
They won’t escape unless there’s a bad storm with really big waves.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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Ukrainians consult them to track potential Russian attacks, like people check weather applications for storms but with less certainty, shorter warning, and deadly stakes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The deluge comes after a series of storms swept through Japan and neighbouring countries this week, in what's been forecast to be an unusually active typhoon season.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The home still remains exposed to risks such as fire, storms, water damage, theft and liability claims, the law firm says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Most recently, a series of atmospheric river storms in January 2023 triggered a major landslide that initiated a nearly three-year closure of Highway 1.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
About fifteen minutes later, the office door flies open, and Jay storms in.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman, who stormed out of his Netflix investment a few years ago, has rekindled that old flame.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
After the most recent, when a gunman stormed a hotel in Washington during a White House dinner, Trump's security team said they would review their protocols for protecting the president.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Toppled in August 2024 by a student-led uprising that ended her 15-year, iron-fisted rule, Hasina fled by helicopter to India as crowds stormed her palace.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
But I never bothered to tune into other matches even as soccer leagues from across the globe have stormed network, cable and streaming channels in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The self-confident fifteen-year-old paid no heed to their discontent and discourteously stormed out.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Amy Hunt claimed her first senior international title by storming to 100m glory and delivering Great Britain's first gold medal at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
A late time violation penalty left Laura Siegemund storming off the court upset, triggering a dispute between her partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Ostapenko over claims of persistent slow play.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Thousands of Kenyans took to the streets in June 2024 against economic hardship and corruption, eventually storming parliament to force the cancellation of new taxes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Generation Z—those born between 1997 and 2012—aren’t exactly storming the C-suite, a move that typically takes years of corporate ladder-climbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
But now the god of earthquake, storming home over the mountains of Asia from the Sunburned land, sighted him far away.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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