tempest
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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
For those not chronically online, however, this past week’s tempest over Wikipedia can be jolting—especially given the site’s objective to remain trustworthy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2025
So I hope that’s not just a ripple; I hope it’s the butterfly wings that start the tempest, leading more and more people to behave like socially conscious consumers.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025
They opened it, with the result, of course, that all the Winds rushed out at once and swept them away in a terrific tempest.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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
In the midst of these tempests, seven months after leaving England, scurvy swept through the fleet.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2023
For all her country’s failings, for all her family’s scandals, Queen Elizabeth was, as the Bard wrote, an ever fixed mark, who looked upon tempests and was never shaken.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
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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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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