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tempest

[tem-pist] / ˈtɛm pɪst /


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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

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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