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tempest

[tem-pist] / ˈtɛm pɪst /


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Haiti's Civil Protection Agency reported two people died and another was injured Thursday when the tempest triggered a landslide in the west of the island nation.

From Barron's Oct. 25, 2025

Minutes later, these new friends cross the threshold into George and Martha’s dissolute tempest.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

Amid the film’s self-conscious depiction of a brewing tempest, he remains a true force of nature.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

When Ruben Amorim predicted a "storm would come" surely even he did not anticipate the scale of the tempest through December.

From BBC Jan. 9, 2025

Moreau snarls, and the cage becomes a tempest of swirling black clouds.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Now, scientists have discovered that these massive tempests can also generate lightning far more powerful than anything typically seen on Earth.

From Science Daily May 21, 2026

Now small armies of amateur Internet sleuths and movie fans have joined the fray, turning gripes and teapot tempests into social media scandals.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2025

Over the years, ships lost in tempests have piled up on the seabed, themselves becoming hazards to vessels that drag nets around.

From National Geographic Dec. 15, 2023

This epilogue-like conversation — along with the prickly dynamic between these two hurting characters, both of whom, it is made clear, are carrying around their own private tempests — feel oddly static, even anticlimactic.

From Washington Post Mar. 23, 2022

We will overcome; we will endure all of life’s tempests.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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