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When he finally turned south, however, he met what may have been the fiercest tempest on Lake Superior in more than 60 years.

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For those not chronically online, however, this past week’s tempest over Wikipedia can be jolting—especially given the site’s objective to remain trustworthy.

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Amid the film’s self-conscious depiction of a brewing tempest, he remains a true force of nature.

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They have looked on the tempests of war, economic turmoil, civil unrest and seesawing politics and remained, as Shakespeare said, an ever-fixed mark, adapting to atmospheric shifts but essentially unchanged.

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The president, it seems, is willing to wait out the tempest created by his tariff plan.

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

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