maelstrom
Example Sentences
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Her motto is to keep a “cool head” amid the maelstrom.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Her take is a maelstrom of splendid beauty and doomed love, colliding at a feverish pace that makes the fidelity to Brontë’s book moot.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
Amid the maelstrom of the closing minutes in Cardiff there was a slightly comedic moment.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
The country of 52 million, with the world’s No. 14 economy, has emerged from the maelstrom of 2025 in a geoeconomic sweet spot.
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
Wiser now, Ben had told his mother that he would disappear for the day if she did not devise a plan to keep the colonel out of the maelstrom of this ill-omened day.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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