tsunami
noun
tsu·na·mi
(t)su̇-ˈnä-mē 
plural tsunamis also tsunami
: a great sea wave produced especially by submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption : tidal wave
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Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
The Way of True Freedom Jet Li is opening up about how surviving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
The 79th Cannes may go down as the time the world's grandest film festival for the first time wrestled with the onset of AI — its arrival has been felt like a tsunami on the French Riviera.
—ABC News, 18 May 2026
The audience is relieved of the prior editions’ boggling tsunami wall of zombies.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 May 2026
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tsunami
noun
tsu·na·mi
(t)su̇-ˈnäm-ē
: a great sea wave produced especially by an earthquake or volcanic eruption under the sea : tidal wave
Etymology
Japanese, from tsu "harbor" + nami "wave"
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