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
In a tempest of tragedy, basketball was his life preserver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
At the time, Guinea was in the midst of a "political tempest", she wrote.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
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
In the midst of these tempests, seven months after leaving England, scurvy swept through the fleet.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing tempest
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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The Tempest
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