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typhoon

[tahy-foon] / taɪˈfun /


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He is sanguine that SoftBank will be a winner from any AI shakeout, which he said could be like a typhoon or an earthquake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Forecasts indicated that the typhoon would pass near Okinawa before turning northeast toward the Amami region around June 1-2.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

Storm Jangmi -- which was downgraded from a typhoon -- injured 15 people in southern Japan on Tuesday, knocked out power to thousands of homes and grounded hundreds of flights.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

“We did two months of typhoon disaster relief for five provinces here,” he said.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025

The next week, on my birthday, there was a terrible typhoon.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin




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