maelstrom
Example Sentences
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The 31-year-old wife of Brooklyn Beckham has found herself in the centre of a media maelstrom following her husband's explosive social media post taking aim at his A-list parents, Sir David and Lady Victoria.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
The country of 52 million, with the world’s No. 14 economy, has emerged from the maelstrom of 2025 in a geoeconomic sweet spot.
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
By morning, the clouds parted, and we found we survived the meteorological maelstrom relatively intact.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
Grimes flipped cheerleader routines into an overwhelming bitcrushed force, burying them in a maelstrom of bleeps, bloops and primal screams that sounded like the optimism of Silicon Valley crashing down around her ears.
From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025
Wiser now, Ben had told his mother that he would disappear for the day if she did not devise a plan to keep the colonel out of the maelstrom of this ill-omened day.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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