as in controversy
variance of opinion on a matter
a seemingly endless firestorm was ignited by that U.S. Supreme Court decision
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Recent Examples of firestorm
But the country faces a larger and more daunting challenge, because this disaster — like the firestorms in Los Angeles and the hurricanes repeatedly pummeling Florida and the southeast — once again raises the question of where people can continue to safely live.
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Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 9 July 2025
Waltz was at the center of a firestorm in April for his apparent mistaken inclusion of the editor in chief of The Atlantic in the Signal group chat, in which Trump’s most senior advisers detailed attack plans against Houthis in Yemen.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 9 July 2025
Six months after the Jan. 7 firestorms that killed at least 29 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures, frustrations are mounting among many homeowners over how the state’s largest insurer is handling their claims for damages.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
President Trump facing a political firestorm over the Jeffrey Epstein files, dividing his base and putting the president on the defensive.
—ABC News, 20 July 2025
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Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 9 July 2025
Waltz was at the center of a firestorm in April for his apparent mistaken inclusion of the editor in chief of The Atlantic in the Signal group chat, in which Trump’s most senior advisers detailed attack plans against Houthis in Yemen.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 9 July 2025
Six months after the Jan. 7 firestorms that killed at least 29 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures, frustrations are mounting among many homeowners over how the state’s largest insurer is handling their claims for damages.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
President Trump facing a political firestorm over the Jeffrey Epstein files, dividing his base and putting the president on the defensive.
—ABC News, 20 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for firestorm
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There is a bigger lesson to be learned from the controversy: marketers no longer control the narrative.—
Kian Bakhtiari,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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The Trump administration has been caught up in controversy over the case for weeks as his supporters seek more transparency about Epstein's criminal case files.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
31 July 2025
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Keegan Bradley: This is not the big captaincy debate.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
23 July 2025
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There is an active debate about the merits of various strategies to win the competition for AI while avoiding catastrophe, but there has been less discussion about how AGI might reshape the international landscape, the distribution of global power, and geopolitical alliances.—
MATAN CHOREV,
Foreign Affairs,
22 July 2025
Noun
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But there are still some sour grapes about the big tactical dispute in February.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
14 July 2025
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Threads on the South Park subreddit and social media have lit up with foul-mouthed complaints from international fans, most of them directed at Paramount and David Ellison’s Skydance Media, whose $8 billion buyout of Paramount is at the heart of the South Park dispute.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
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Jake is a single father who has brought Kristen up in the severe Calvinist tradition, marked by Bible disputations of Talmudic intricacy and by a radical detachment from secular and popular culture.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2023
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Seven decades later, this culture of disputation emerged as a central theme in Timothy Garton Ash’s The Magic Lantern, his eyewitness report on the Eastern European revolutions of 1989.—
Susie Linfield,
The New York Review of Books,
11 May 2022
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The account, originally meant to help fund both of their college expenses, has now become the center of a family disagreement.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
31 July 2025
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Shack also cautioned against attempts to separate anti-Zionism from antisemitism, stating that the premise itself is flawed, and stressed that blaming Jews around the world for disagreements with Israeli government policies is equally hateful.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
30 July 2025
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“Firestorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firestorm. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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