tempest
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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
An end to the Graeme Shinnie at left-back experiment, the veteran having being turned inside out in the tempest of Celtic's attack in recent weeks.
From BBC • May 24, 2025
In a tempest of tragedy, basketball was his life preserver.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025
“But the tears are necessary. Don’t you remember what Othello said? ‘If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death.’
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Vocabulary lists containing tempest
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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The Tempest
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