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hurricane

[hur-i-keyn, huhr-, -kuhn] / ˈhɜr ɪˌkeɪn, ˈhʌr-, -kən /


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The beanstalk shot right through the clouds, where they swirled like the eye of a hurricane.

From Literature

“It’s like a hurricane. But I didn’t think they happened around here.”

From Literature

Over the past three decades, fiscal hardship has left us with a fragile electrical grid vulnerable to hurricanes, mass migration, violence, school closures, and a diminished public university.

From BBC

At seventy-four miles an hour she graduated from a tropical storm to a hurricane.

From Literature

She was also part of the breaking news team that responded to back-to-back hurricanes in in Tampa Bay in 2024, the worst natural disasters to hit the region in more than century.

From The Wall Street Journal