cyclone

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Recent Examples of cyclone In the Atlantic, that means there is more wind shear and air that pushes downward, both of which stymie cyclone development. — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026 In 1948 de Kooning was a decade into her relationship with her husband, Willem de Kooning, and at the center of a cyclone of making and talking and looking that engulfed New York artists of the 1930s and 1940s, from Arshile Gorky to Franz Kline. — Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026 Its enormous death toll became a catalyst for major improvements in disaster preparedness and cyclone warning systems in the country. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026 The cyclone's center was at far out sea and was not threatening land. — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cyclone
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Noun
  • Hurricane Isaias made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Saturday, spawning tornadoes, destroying buildings and downing power lines across the Gulf region.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Over the weekend, the hurricane brought heavy rain to the southern state of Guerrero, killing one person.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The average hurricane is about 300 miles (482 kilometers) wide, but hurricanes – or typhoons, as they’re called in the western Pacific of the Northern Hemisphere – can be much bigger or smaller.
    — Zachary Handlos, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
  • In the northwest Pacific they are called typhoons and in the south Pacific and Indian oceans they are called cyclones or tropical cyclones.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Cyclone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cyclone. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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