turmoil
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While the cryptic video confirmed the beef, Cooper still didn’t offer any explanation as to what initially caused the turmoil between them.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
She said the record of stock-market turmoil during midterm election years goes all the way back to 1938.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
The two-week truce was agreed to allow negotiations between US and Iranian officials aimed at ending a conflict that has already killed thousands and plunged the global economy into turmoil.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Talks picked up again in the fourth quarter of 2025 when turmoil hit business development companies, private-credit funds that investment firms sell to individual investors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
And the awareness, somehow, amid all of this turmoil, that she had missed a cycle.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Vocabulary lists containing turmoil
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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