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storm clouds

NOUN
thundercloud
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When storm clouds are forming, bold investors can use put-option spreads to profit off the expected stock market decline.

From Barron's Mar. 4, 2026

They are of the same era—fanciful and fantastical embodiments of the enterprise, leisure and sense of possibility America was placing on offer, despite the decade of Depression and war’s looming storm clouds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

Other out-of-towners might be disappointed to arrive in sunny Southern California only to be greeted by storm clouds, but Lilleaas is sanguine about the situation.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 6, 2026

These fat-pocketed bigwigs must roam the Hollywood Hills peering up at the sky covered in storm clouds, hoping that they’ll catch the fateful electric spark in their glass vials.

From Salon Jan. 4, 2026

Around the son of Jupiter, storm clouds gathered, swirling into a hurricane.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan




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