tumultuous
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Appel’s father died in 2023, in his mid-70s, after about seven tumultuous years of challenging health problems.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
One was Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, the now-defunct Bahamas-based crypto asset exchange infamous for its meteoric rise and tumultuous downfall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“If there’s anything tumultuous happening now . . . I wouldn’t know, I haven’t been paying attention,” she jokes, “just remember that historically, an enlightenment of epic proportions is probably not far off.”
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
He had a tumultuous beginning as Hibs manager; one league win in his first 14 games.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
They, too, like the hillside jungle, were tumultuous with evening, but from the remote height turned to stillness, their fierceness tempered by the air that lay between.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing tumultuous
The Great Gatsby
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List 7
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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