tempest
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Haiti's Civil Protection Agency reported two people died and another was injured Thursday when the tempest triggered a landslide in the west of the island nation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
Minutes later, these new friends cross the threshold into George and Martha’s dissolute tempest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Amid the film’s self-conscious depiction of a brewing tempest, he remains a true force of nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
When Ruben Amorim predicted a "storm would come" surely even he did not anticipate the scale of the tempest through December.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
Moreau snarls, and the cage becomes a tempest of swirling black clouds.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Now, scientists have discovered that these massive tempests can also generate lightning far more powerful than anything typically seen on Earth.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026
Now small armies of amateur Internet sleuths and movie fans have joined the fray, turning gripes and teapot tempests into social media scandals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
Over the years, ships lost in tempests have piled up on the seabed, themselves becoming hazards to vessels that drag nets around.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 15, 2023
This epilogue-like conversation — along with the prickly dynamic between these two hurting characters, both of whom, it is made clear, are carrying around their own private tempests — feel oddly static, even anticlimactic.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
We will overcome; we will endure all of life’s tempests.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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