tumultuous
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At 16, she eloped with her neighbour, Ganpatrao Bhosle, leading to a tumultuous marriage and separation.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Scott Barshay, a hard-driving corporate lawyer, takes the helm at the firm after a tumultuous year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
The tumultuous developments are keeping Asian currencies under pressure while "reinforcing a bias toward USD strength", Chan wrote.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
The tumultuous tariff landscape of the past year hasn’t helped.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
Billions of light- years away are still more tumultuous objects, the quasars, which may be the colossal explosions of young galaxies, the mightiest events in the history of the universe since the Big Bang itself.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing tumultuous
The Great Gatsby
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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