twister
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The advantage of the twister tap, as Hernández explained it, is how repeatable it is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
It was as if a twister had hit the terminal.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
But when a twister menaces their city, and Dad calls the boys while on the air, that goes viral and there’s actually a moral to the story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
While a twister didn’t end up touching down in San Francisco, one did just south in Scotts Valley in Santa Cruz County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
Like a tongue twister, but all in one word.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Six people died in Mississippi as tornadoes swept through that state and twisters killed another three in Alabama, including an 82-year-old woman.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
The latest twisters follow another powerful tornado which tore through a rural Iowa town and killed four people earlier in May.
From BBC ● May 27, 2024
Much of Houston was battered by winds of speeds up to 100 miles per hour, rivaling speeds seen during Hurricane Ike, with “some twisters mixed in,” the city’s mayor, John Whitmire, said at the briefing.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
This year, we got two violent twisters in two days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
The maelstrom was coming undone, with little twisters coiling sideways out of the water.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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