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tempest

[tem-pist] / ˈtɛm pɪst /


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Celtic couldn't throw a bucket of water in Rangers' direction not to mind a tempest.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Now comes nerve-jangling Korean director Na Hong-jin, long a revered force in genre cinema thanks to “The Yellow Sea” and “The Wailing,” with his own bid for immortality, the alien-monster tempest “Hope.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

Minutes later, these new friends cross the threshold into George and Martha’s dissolute tempest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

If the sea had been frozen at the height of a tempest, and every storm-tossed wave locked into place, the scene could not have been more jumbled and uneven.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

Disney executives tend to dismiss such incidents as tempests in teapots: trending today, replaced by a new complaint tomorrow.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2022

None of those tempests did any serious damage to Ridley-Thomas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2021

It was his habit to walk to and from church every Sunday, and this he did, undeterred by tempests, boiling sun, or freezing weather.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee


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