groundswell

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Tuesday's service in Lisburn was arranged after the appeal triggered a groundswell of community compassion.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

After Bangladesh and Nepal, there has been a groundswell of Gen Z protests globally, felling governments in Madagascar and Bulgaria and unnerving rulers from Morocco to Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

They start small and transform into a groundswell.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

Moltbot, an open-source AI bot that runs on Anthropic’s Claude, generated a groundswell of excitement online over the weekend.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

White Southerners could ignore the groundswell of discontent, but, especially following World War II, blacks were simply not going to tolerate a life separate from and unequal to the American mainstream.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson