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
Chalamet found himself at the center of a firestorm recently when clips resurfaced from his live conversation with Matthew McConaughey during a Variety and CNN town hall last month.
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Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
For a young actress weathering a public firestorm, the guidance clearly made an impression.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
For a young actress weathering a public firestorm, the guidance of experienced colleagues clearly made an impression.
—Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
The firestorm DeRosa created by prematurely saying his team advanced will subside Friday, the moment the first pitch is thrown in the quarterfinal against Canada, the Pool A winner.
—Levi Weaver, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
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Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
For a young actress weathering a public firestorm, the guidance clearly made an impression.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
For a young actress weathering a public firestorm, the guidance of experienced colleagues clearly made an impression.
—Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
The firestorm DeRosa created by prematurely saying his team advanced will subside Friday, the moment the first pitch is thrown in the quarterfinal against Canada, the Pool A winner.
—Levi Weaver, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for firestorm
Noun
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Throughout the campaign, Conyears-Ervin deflected from her controversies by framing herself as a scrappy politician who is the right candidate to defend the district’s most vulnerable residents.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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As her audience has grown, so too have the controversies that define her brand.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That is the number of votes required to invoke cloture, end debate, break a filibuster, and allow the bill in question to proceed to a final vote on the floor.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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At the same time – and unprecedentedly in Lebanon since the 1980s — open public debate has persisted concerning the possibility of reaching a normalization agreement with Israel.—
Asher Kaufman,
The Conversation,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Officers said they were called to the area for a domestic dispute.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Merit filed for bankruptcy last July and became embroiled in a thorny legal dispute with a former broadcasting business partner.—
Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
21 Mar. 2026
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According to him, advances in machine learning have yanked questions once trapped inside theological/philosophical disputations into corporate board packs.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 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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Over the next months, Barr made clear his own disagreements with the foundations of the Russia investigation, moving to dismiss a false-statements prosecution that Mueller had brought against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, even though that investigation ended in a guilty plea.—
Eric Tucker,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2026
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The onboard disagreement escalated as other passengers also sought to use the underseat space reserved for the guide dog, raising questions about enforcing service animal rules on commercial flights.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Firestorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firestorm. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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