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Recent Examples of firestorm The fire year has already been a busy and destructive one in California, even aside the hurricane-force firestorms that devastated Los Angeles at the dawn of the new year. Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2025 Once the breach of national security was revealed by national news outlets, the White House displayed complete crisis communications ignorance in controlling this firestorm. Rick Pozniak, Boston Herald, 1 Apr. 2025 Meanwhile, there may have been Democratic malaise about the Biden-Harris administration, but that pales in comparison to the current political firestorm over Trump’s spending cuts, tariffs and other legally questionable policies, all of which could significantly impact county residents. Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025 Spyglass, the film’s production company, claimed her words were antisemitic, launching a social media firestorm. Barry Levitt, Time, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for firestorm
Recent Examples of Synonyms for firestorm
Noun
  • Now, with the controversy behind him, Benn has the opportunity to finally face Eubank in the ring.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Despite the controversy, for the Hilton, that doesn't change the imperative to serve.
    Major Garrett, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Things got particularly ugly during 2016 presidential debates when he was asked to defend referring to women as fat pigs and slobs.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Whether that’s primarily on the players for not handling that like professionals, or on Briere for not recognizing the impact that losing Laughton (and, to a lesser extent, Erik Johnson) would have on the group, is up for debate.
    Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Book dispute is one of three religious rights cases The case is one of three religious rights cases the Supreme Court is deciding in the coming weeks, and appears likely to be part of a recent trend of the court siding with religious rights advocates.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, borrowers who have their loans in default should expect to receive an email in the next two weeks asking them to contact the Debt Resolution Group, which helps resolve disputes related to defaulted loans.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Leaders who create space for disagreement without judgment build greater trust, psychological safety and strategic cohesion.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In a landmark 1935 case, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt couldn’t fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission due to policy disagreements.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Firestorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firestorm. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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