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[stawrm] / stɔrm /




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We were expecting a storm, we knew the conditions would be horrible, so we thought it might go in our favour.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The surf was relatively calm, Hogan remarked, and the water pouring down the street and into the storm drains was far from a deluge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The next name on the storm list for the 2026/2027 season is Chloe.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

I’d just bounced across New York Harbor in a motorboat with my friend Diana in the middle of a summer storm and we were both soaked and famished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Nothing like a witch turning someone into a toad or making a storm, but he could touch fire, make things disappear, or turn one small thing into another.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

During past El Niño seasons, residents have been known to swap their cars for canoes and paddleboards to get around the peninsula after storms and high tides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The storms also hit the Netherlands and Belgium, where falling trees injured four people in Brussels on Saturday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

After two named storms in as many days, more wet and potentially very windy weather is forecast to sweep across much of the country on Monday and Tuesday.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Officials and residents along the Southern California coast braced for impact Sunday from very high tides after early-season storms already caused significant damage in coastal areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

I say, as a third man storms off.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Late Monday, dozens of people, including the mother of a Novi Sad disaster victim, stormed Informer's premises and disrupted its broadcast.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob stormed the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"Water! Water!" the crowd shouted as it stormed a compound with data centres, armed with empty plastic bottles and jerry cans.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Shares of Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and other hardware companies stormed higher on Monday in a show of intense investor appetite for the artificial-intelligence trade.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

In the summer and fall of 1776, more than five thousand rangers from Virginia, Georgia, and North and South Carolina stormed through Cherokee territory.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"We're taking the Bastille," one demonstrator shouted in Marseille as masked protesters rammed the door of the mayor's offices with security barriers, in reference to the 1789 storming of a fortress during the French Revolution.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Shares of Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and other hardware stocks were storming higher on Monday in a show of intense investor appetite for the artificial-intelligence trade.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Still, though it wakes up when we get to the storming of the Bastille, economically but effectively rendered, and, later the Reign of Terror, in between it can turn into a murky, mopey slog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Back then, at a vote held in Kigali, Rwanda, the support for him was so overwhelming that he was ushered back into office by acclaim, with a storming round of applause replacing a formal vote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Colonel Cargill came storming into General Peckem’s office a minute later in a furor of dmid resentment.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller


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