torrent
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Investors are no longer finding it easy to digest the torrent of debt funding the artificial-intelligence buildout.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Despite a torrent of listings, many by tech and AI firms, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Tech Index shed 19% in the first six months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Sebastien Leas, a forecaster at France's weather service, likened it to a "vacuum cleaner, drawing in heat and masses of hot air rising from North Africa" and blasting it northward in a violent torrent.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
If users plan to torrent, game or make video calls, speed and reliability are crucial.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
A torrent of words spilled out, explaining the whole harebrained scheme.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
In the corridors, torrents of water poured from broken pipes.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
He starts gently behind Mr. Blanchard, whose goal of building toward a climax is well-served as Blakey grows gradually more animated, ending in torrents of stickwork and declarative bass-drum kicks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
"It is a vivid reminder of how global wind patterns can supercharge local monsoon dynamics, turning the monsoon into mayhem, rivers into raging torrents and the Himalayas into a graveyard," said Mr Deoras.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
On the one hand, this is a place that is known to be dangerous—part of Texas’ Flash Flood Alley, where big storms, dry ground, and hilly terrain routinely combine to turn riverbeds into deadly torrents.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2025
Then, just at dusk, the sky opened, and it began to rain—not li^it spring showers, but cold, soaking torrents of rain, streaming down her face, icicling rivulets down her chest and legs.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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A Long Walk to Water
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