hurricane
Example Sentences
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“We’re in the levee-building business, not the hurricane prevention business,” he said.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
“If there were a hurricane and it was destroyed, how much would it cost you to set up someplace?” a woman writes.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 28, 2026
For decades, wildfires were considered a reactive emergency, but more disaster experts are looking for ways to apply proactive messaging, deployment and warning systems to fires — systems more akin to hurricane preparedness.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
“But if you get hit with a hurricane and an asteroid in the same period, we’ll miss. And that’s OK.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
I gazed up at the old tree now, thinking about how it had stood tall through many a hurricane.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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