tempest
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Just weeks after Hurricane Marie brought massive waves, flooding and destruction to the Long Beach peninsula, another tempest threatens the coastal enclave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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
But summoning this tempest is something of an act of will.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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
It’s calm, too calm, yellow fluttering birds that don’t belong in this life-bucking tempest.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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
With more tempests on the horizon, the Ballona Creek trash collector’s first storm season is not yet over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 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
We will overcome; we will endure all of life’s tempests.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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The Tempest
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