aftershocks

plural of aftershock

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aftershocks
Noun
  • Reporting teams have held back on submitting story pitches about important news topics out of fear of the internal repercussions.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 May 2026
  • After being threatened with legal repercussions, the outlet deleted the story in its entirety.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease eight years ago, a neurological disorder that damages brain cells, leading to symptoms like uncontrollable movements, tremors, and balance issues.
    Madeline Montgomery, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • In cats, the toxin can cause tremors, diarrhea, vomiting, coughing, incoordination and seizures.
    Amy DeYoung, USA Today, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • The failure of New Glenn also has major implications for NASA and its surging efforts to return humans to the Moon before the end of this decade and to establish a lunar base on the surface.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
  • Pope Leo's statement is one of many debates being had in religious circles about the implications of AI and how parishioners should or should not engage with the rapidly growing technology.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • Europe is particularly vulnerable to energy shocks as a major net energy importer.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • The years since 2020 can be read as a sequence of shocks.
    Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • The quakes struck near the Mendocino Triple Junction, a highly seismic area where three tectonic plates meet.
    Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • Aftershocks detected Subsequent quakes have been reported in the same area.
    William B. Davis, New York Times, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Let the anniversaries roll From America250 to Miles Davis, not to mention the echoes of Jazz Day and full summer at Ravinia, our critic’s picks in jazz and classical music for the coming season.
    Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • Using money from depositors who had the right to withdraw their funds on demand to finance long-term, illiquid investments with an uncertain and distant payoff was a highly risky strategy—and one with echoes of what is currently creating turmoil among private credit funds today.
    Fortune, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
  • The administration says the project is necessary to protect water deliveries for 27 million Californians and roughly 750,000 acres of farmland while improving reliability during earthquakes and extreme storm systems.
    Richard Ramos, CBS News, 8 May 2026
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“Aftershocks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aftershocks. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.

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