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stormy

[stawr-mee] / ˈstɔr mi /


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Protesters clashed with police as thousands of people braved stormy weather to demonstrate against a controversial private property bill outside the Argentine Senate on Thursday.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Hoyte van Hoytema’s Imax-framed cinematography is assertive and present, rocking with the stormy waves and peering into the torch-lit darkness where the color palette is as starkly orange and black as an ancient Greek urn.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Somewhere in the stormy waters off Greenland, a bright yellow robotic probe, known as an Argo float, is sinking silently beneath the waves.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Scientists are cooking up a radical new plan to protect Earth from a dangerously stormy sun.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

“I’ve been a sheep-farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world,” said he; “many a thousand mile of stormy water off from this.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

In this and other ways I am agreeably disposed to this stronger and stormier Tiguan.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 2026

It is Friday when things will get stormier.

From BBC Oct. 1, 2025

“We can’t say for sure it’s definitely stormier but, what we can say, is the storms we are having in northwest Europe are getting more severe,” says Bricheno.

From National Geographic Dec. 15, 2023

For California, that could mean wetter, stormier conditions, but in the northwest, the result may be a warmer and drier winter.

From Seattle Times Oct. 1, 2023

And in addition to classes, in weather that grew colder and stormier every day, the pilots were given flight tests to decide which aircraft they’d be best suited for.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Macquarie Island is only a tiny piece of land surrounded by the world's stormiest ocean.

From Science Daily May 14, 2026

“In most lives there arrives a mellowing, a lovely autumnal calm that overtakes even the stormiest personalities,” Chernow writes.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2025

That is because the winter of 2013/14 was the wettest on record and was considered to be the stormiest period for two decades. 

From BBC Jan. 23, 2024

Despite all this, Bricheno notes that the North Sea is far from the stormiest body of water in the world.

From National Geographic Dec. 15, 2023

Those girls were blessed with the ability to sleep through the stormiest of sidewinders.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson




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