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Social media posts also showed pictures of a semi-truck blown over on the highway.
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Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2024
In lower central Michigan, wind gusts of up to 50 mph with small hail and torrential rainfall could knock down tree limbs, blow over unsecured objects and cause other damages in Jackson and Livingston counties.
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Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2024
Less dust blowing over from the Sahara Desert and cleaner shipping emissions also have been cited as influencing factors.
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
On May 4-5, 1989, a derecho blew over the Dallas-Fort Worth area, moving southward over central Texas and into southwestern Louisiana, damaging or destroying more than 100 mobile homes, and knocking over utility poles, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 19 May 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1609, in the meaning defined above
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“Blow over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blow%20over. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
blow over
verb
: to come to an end without a lasting effect
hoped the problem would blow over soon
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