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
At the time, Guinea was in the midst of a "political tempest", she wrote.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
He watched as one tempest swept away about $1 million in rides and other property in the span of 15 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
At the same time, another tempest was brewing in the nearby all-black public housing project McDougald Terrace.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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
This epilogue-like conversation — along with the prickly dynamic between these two hurting characters, both of whom, it is made clear, are carrying around their own private tempests — feel oddly static, even anticlimactic.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
None of those tempests did any serious damage to Ridley-Thomas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
I hated these emotional outbursts, these tempests of passion, for they always left me tense and weak.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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