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Recent Examples of aftershock
This film, so seemingly unassertive, apparently rambling and plotless, has a devastating impact and aftershock.
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Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
Her fall 2026 lineup explored the emotional aftershock of moving between worlds.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 19 Feb. 2026
But the changes underway are more than an aftershock.
—Bruno V. Manno, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Seismologists will continue monitoring aftershock patterns, as earthquakes of this magnitude typically generate ongoing seismic activity for days or weeks.
—Hollie Silverman
adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
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Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
Her fall 2026 lineup explored the emotional aftershock of moving between worlds.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 19 Feb. 2026
But the changes underway are more than an aftershock.
—Bruno V. Manno, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Seismologists will continue monitoring aftershock patterns, as earthquakes of this magnitude typically generate ongoing seismic activity for days or weeks.
—Hollie Silverman
adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aftershock
Noun
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The prospect of a cooling economy alongside high inflation, touched off by an oil shock, has many analysts comparing the current period to the 1970s.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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More consumer price inflation, more lower-income stress Atsi Sheth, chief credit officer at Moody’s Ratings, said this is only the most recent shock for a petrochemical industry that has seen several in recent years, from Covid to Ukraine to the Red Sea issues and now the Strait of Hormuz.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
28 Mar. 2026
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Hilltop Hoods‘ tour is over, but the hip-hop artist’s special auction has created a warm afterglow.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
27 Mar. 2026
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This is the faint thermal afterglow from some 380,000 years after the big bang that was unleashed when the hot, foglike plasma that filled the early universe cooled and cleared as primordial atomic nuclei bonded with free electrons.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
27 Mar. 2026
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Those who noticed the quake are encouraged to report it through the USGS Felt Report form.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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People outside might also feel a quake of this magnitude.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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Like any global conflict, its repercussions ripple outward far from the immediate war zone.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
26 Mar. 2026
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The conclusions could carry significant political repercussions because some Republican lawmakers are threatening a vote to expel Cherfilus-McCormick from the House.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Jones says that this most recent set of quakes could be foreshocks for a much larger event.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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But conventionally, only half of earthquakes have an easily detectable foreshock, while the other half do not.—
Los Angeles Times,
Boston Herald,
22 Dec. 2025
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The fallout from that ordeal, in addition to being diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus, led to Barber pulling out of a main event fight against fellow Coloradan Rose Namajunas at Ball Arena that July.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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Revenue hit and fallout The advertiser pullback hit X’s finances hard.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Mar. 2026
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By the time symptoms first appear, the majority of these cells are lost forever, meaning the disease can progress for years before any of the telltale physical symptoms emerge—tremors, stiffness and slowness of movement, among others.—
Todd Weissman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
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Until recently, scientists could only manually read through graphs of seismic recordings to pick out tremors, then use the data to trace the movements of magma that caused them.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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A number of denouements follow in All That’s Left of You, including a jump forward into 2022, when Hanan and Salim, who now live in Canada, go back to Jaffa and find Salim’s old family home, a run-down oasis of the past in a city determined to forget its history.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2026
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The denouement of the musical bears down, allowing both Barfee and Olive to bring the piece home, and where some of the show’s best music lives.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Aftershock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aftershock. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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