tempestuous
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Tempestuous and impulsive by nature, she made headlines again in 2006, when, at age 79, she announced that she would marry a man 34 years her junior.
From Reuters • Jan. 16, 2023
Tempestuous £95,000-a-week striker Craig Bellamy, who turns 31 this week, has told he can leave by Manchester City.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2010
Tempestuous Diva Maria Callas gave her first U.S. recital of the season in Kansas City, Mo., showed a celebrity-studded white-tie S.R.O. audience that she is as great a performer as she is a singer.
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Tempestuous yells greeted this sentence and the vituperative orgy of insults was resumed with maximum lung power.
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I know not how, for ill or well, It turns, this uncontrollable Tempestuous spirit, blind with wrong.
From Medea of Euripedes by Euripedes
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