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torrent

[tawr-uhnt, tor-] / หˆtษ”r ษ™nt, หˆtษ’r- /


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There’s good news and bad news and they are the same: There is a ton of music, almost no conversation, but as a result the songs come in a torrent.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Oct. 22, 2026

For Bay Area journalist Bojana Cvijic, “The Devils” began as grainy screenshots on her Tumblr dashboard and a low-quality “yet still awe-inspiring” torrent sent over by a friend.

From Salon โ— Oct. 22, 2026

Dramatic footage posted online late Wednesday and collated by DHA showed a line of parked cars in the northern Sariyer district being pushed into the torrent of muddy water, where they were swept away.

From Barron's โ— Oct. 15, 2026

Watching his wife’s torrent of visiting children and grandchildren, he said with some bemusement: “Everywhere she goes is a convention.”

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Oct. 14, 2026

Our main communications dish, which relayed signals from the Hab to Hermes, acted like a parachute, getting torn from its foundation and carried with the torrent.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Though an uncensored director’s cut premiered in 2002, it was never formally released on home media, and “The Devils” remained difficult to find outside of low-quality, choppily edited releases and torrents for decades.

From Salon โ— Oct. 22, 2026

Even by the standards of Renaissance Florence, where talent flowed in torrents, the existence of three generations of innovative masters in one family was nothing short of extraordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Oct. 21, 2026

Like the groves and gardens, houses built foolhardily near the dry summertime river risked being pulled off their foundations and washed away by the winter torrents.

From Los Angeles Times โ— Sep. 17, 2026

Survivors of massive flash floods in Nepal have recounted how they saw their loved ones disappear into torrents of mud.

From BBC โ— Aug. 27, 2026

Out on the water, fires burned, oils somehow ignited and blazing despite the torrents.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi


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