groundswell

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And yet, the groundswell of outrage that I expected from my community hasn’t materialized.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

They start small and transform into a groundswell.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 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

Fifty years after the death of Franco, the film has contributed to a groundswell of calls for the interned women to be formally recognised under the law as victims of Spain's dictatorship.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

White Southerners could ignore the groundswell of discontent, but, especially following World War II, blacks were simply not going to tolerate a life separate from and unequal to the American mainstream.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson