maelstrom
Example Sentences
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“History” is a major player in this breathless narrative, as in “gales of history,” “maelstrom of history,” “winds of history,” “tide of history” and the “frenetic pace of history”—all within a few dozen pages.
There is instead a shape-shifting maelstrom of quarks, and physicists can map quark distribution to estimate the proton’s size.
From Scientific American
The onslaught has swept Albania, a Balkan nation with fewer than three million people, into a maelstrom of uncertainty and plunged it into big geopolitical battles involving Iran, Israel and the United States.
From New York Times
She acknowledged that the review will be conducted amid a maelstrom of conjectures and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus’s origin.
From Washington Post
Underneath these challenges lie questions from the public over whether Biden is a strong enough leader to confront the maelstrom.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
