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typhoon

[tahy-foon] / taɪˈfun /


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Bulgarian singer Dara has the night's best staging on Bangaranga - a nonsensical typhoon of tropical pop, based around a word from Jamaican patois that means "a joyful kind of disorder".

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Shell's end of year was marked by survivors of a deadly 2021 typhoon in the Philippines filing a UK lawsuit against the company, seeking financial compensation for climate-related harms.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

“We did two months of typhoon disaster relief for five provinces here,” he said.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025

The country's meteorological service had earlier warned of destructive winds and "high-risk of life-threatening" storm surges from the "very intense" typhoon.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

But before it got there, a great typhoon roared out of the Pacific and sank every ship.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac




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