turmoil
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The script is glancingly empathetic to Jane’s moral turmoil but like Daniel, the film has made up its mind before the movie started.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
"They want to make it seem like there is mass social turmoil in Mexico, and that's not true," Sheinbaum has said of the protests.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
But Stephania lived in turmoil, because she was a feminist at heart.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
Shares of Sherritt have fallen more than 50% amid the turmoil.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
If the river continued through the throat at less than sonic speed—that is to say, less than the speed of sound—it became compacted in the divergent section, bound in turmoil, and inefficient.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
Vocabulary lists containing turmoil
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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