wave
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Eyewitnesses described the tanker "swinging around like a compass" as waves crashed over the abandoned ship and black plumes of oil spurted out into the sea.
From BBC
A wave of Americans arrived on RedNote, a popular Chinese social media app, ahead of a TikTok ban in the US.
From BBC
Many waved flags with a lion and a sun against horizontal green, white and red stripes, the emblem of the monarchy overthrown in 1979.
From Barron's
In 1877, Berliner, then working with Edison, created the first “telephone voice transmitter,” a device that used a vibrating metal diaphragm to convert sound waves into electrical signals for transmission over telephone lines.
A wave of Italian immigrants brought with them a new cuisine.
From Salon
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