maelstrom
Example Sentences
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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
By morning, the clouds parted, and we found we survived the meteorological maelstrom relatively intact.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
In the maelstrom, Root stood tall to notch one of the few milestones missing from a glittering career.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
Grimes flipped cheerleader routines into an overwhelming bitcrushed force, burying them in a maelstrom of bleeps, bloops and primal screams that sounded like the optimism of Silicon Valley crashing down around her ears.
From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025
Roger tugged Billy Costa’s arm and soon all three of them were together in a maelstrom of running children.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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