turmoil
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Discount stores such as Aldi and Dollar General Corp tend to perform well during economic turmoils as cash-strapped consumers seek cheaper alternatives to ease their financial burden.
From Reuters • Sep. 21, 2022
What fascinates most about “Model Citizen” is the way the band seems happy to examine inner terrors and turmoils for its own sake, with anyone listening just along for the ride.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2021
As Mare has found, most humans are too infatuated with their own personal turmoils to really even try to understand what’s happening around them.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2021
Not in a world-historical sense—the dwindling power of the monarchy in the postcolonial age, the assortment of turmoils that have raged around her during her sixty-four-year reign—but in a personal one?
From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2016
It aspires to give representations of Human Life in all its infinite varieties, and inconsistencies, and conflicts, and turmoils produced by the Passions.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
Vocabulary lists containing turmoil
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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