paroxysm

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This eruption is the peninsula’s third volcanic paroxysm in a row, following on from similar lava-spewing eruptions in 2021 and 2022—and it’s unlikely to be the last.

From National Geographic • Jul. 24, 2023

Sittenfeld sets her action in 2018, decades after that paroxysm of genius has passed.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023

In McPherson’s account, Northern support for Brown’s cause “provoked a paroxysm of anger more intense than the original reaction to the raid.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2023

Her team suspects that, before the paroxysm, magma intruded below Nyiragongo’s flank — but then, it waited.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

I sank down on the narrow bed, then went into a fresh paroxysm of coughs as a cloud of choking black dust rose from the filthy straw mattress.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom