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tempest

[tem-pist] / ˈtɛm pɪst /


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The irony of the latest tempest is that Cook is probably most responsible for ushering in the technology that has made the current political moment possible: the camera phone.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2026

Haiti's Civil Protection Agency reported two people died and another was injured Thursday when the tempest triggered a landslide in the west of the island nation.

From Barron's Oct. 25, 2025

When Ruben Amorim predicted a "storm would come" surely even he did not anticipate the scale of the tempest through December.

From BBC Jan. 9, 2025

And selling herself and her hospital to the camera crew, McLendon-Covey turns herself up high, a tempest of real and forced enthusiasm.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 11, 2024

The airlock barely moved, leaving AL102 to take the full force of the tempest.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Now, scientists have discovered that these massive tempests can also generate lightning far more powerful than anything typically seen on Earth.

From Science Daily May 21, 2026

Over the years, ships lost in tempests have piled up on the seabed, themselves becoming hazards to vessels that drag nets around.

From National Geographic Dec. 15, 2023

In the midst of these tempests, seven months after leaving England, scurvy swept through the fleet.

From Washington Post Apr. 18, 2023

At the time of his resignation, his decision to step down humbled and humanized a pope whose papacy had become associated with tempests.

From New York Times Dec. 31, 2022

I hated these emotional outbursts, these tempests of passion, for they always left me tense and weak.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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