typhoon
Example Sentences
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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
The storm reached "violent typhoon" status, the highest classification used by the Japan Meteorological Agency and roughly equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
“We did two months of typhoon disaster relief for five provinces here,” he said.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025
In a library in the Philippines, a dice rattles on the surface of a board before coming to a stop, putting one of its players straight into the path of a powerful typhoon.
From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025
Four days later, as the German and Japanese anthems played, the ship rose into the grasp of a typhoon that whisked it over the Pacific at breathtaking speed, toward America.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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