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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

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

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025

In a library in the Philippines, a dice rattles on the surface of a board before coming to a stop, putting one of its players straight into the path of a powerful typhoon.

From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025

Fung-wong was the 21st typhoon to hit the South East Asian nation this year, at a time where many residents are still struggling to recover from back-to-back natural disasters.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 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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