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
She was always more of a flipper than a twister, and Dennis sometimes landed on her neck from over-rotating her warm-up drills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
Those littluns who had climbed back on the twister fell off again and did not mind.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
The weather service notes most of these twisters are "relatively weak and short-lived, but they still pose a significant threat".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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
There were no serious injuries immediately reported, but city officials said in a news release that the twisters knocked out power to more than 20,000 people.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
This year, we got two violent twisters in two days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
I was really into tongue twisters and funny Shel Silverstein stuff back then, and I loved reciprocal reciting, surprising him with things he’d never heard.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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