groundswell
Example Sentences
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"It really was this huge groundswell… that was clearly saying: We want one of us to represent us in City Hall," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
After Bangladesh and Nepal, there has been a groundswell of Gen Z protests globally, felling governments in Madagascar and Bulgaria and unnerving rulers from Morocco to Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Mamdani won a groundswell of support by promising bold and reasonable policies based on what the people told him.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
Moltbot, an open-source AI bot that runs on Anthropic’s Claude, generated a groundswell of excitement online over the weekend.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
The Exposition Company’s decision raised a groundswell of greed throughout Chicago’s South Side.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
