perfect storm
noun
: a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors
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In a text, Rodriguez said that a perfect storm of factors made continuing at Union Beer too difficult.
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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
Countries like Guyana are caught in a perfect storm where the consequences for extracting fossil fuels collide with the incentives to do so.
—Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
Combined, these two factors create a perfect storm of gratification that gives players both the ability to push the worries of life to the back of their minds for a few hours and feel accomplished for doing so at the same time.
—Ian Walker |, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
Johannesburg is one of many of the world’s big cities that are dealing with a perfect storm of crumbling critical infrastructure, lack of maintenance, corruption and insufficient planning for population growth.
—Sarah Dean, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
Some say the problem is rooted in the economic pressures and salon closures that came with the early Covid pandemic; increased social media use and the rise of at-home hairstylists led to a perfect storm.
—Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2024
All of which brings us to a perfect storm for Apple in 2024.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
Since then America’s shale gas producers have faced a perfect storm.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Education finance experts have predicted a perfect storm for school districts across the country this year as federal pandemic relief aid dries up and school enrollment declines.
—Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2024
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
Countries like Guyana are caught in a perfect storm where the consequences for extracting fossil fuels collide with the incentives to do so.
—Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
Combined, these two factors create a perfect storm of gratification that gives players both the ability to push the worries of life to the back of their minds for a few hours and feel accomplished for doing so at the same time.
—Ian Walker |, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
Johannesburg is one of many of the world’s big cities that are dealing with a perfect storm of crumbling critical infrastructure, lack of maintenance, corruption and insufficient planning for population growth.
—Sarah Dean, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
Some say the problem is rooted in the economic pressures and salon closures that came with the early Covid pandemic; increased social media use and the rise of at-home hairstylists led to a perfect storm.
—Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2024
All of which brings us to a perfect storm for Apple in 2024.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
Since then America’s shale gas producers have faced a perfect storm.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Education finance experts have predicted a perfect storm for school districts across the country this year as federal pandemic relief aid dries up and school enrollment declines.
—Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2024
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“Perfect storm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfect%20storm. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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