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gales

noun

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plural of gale

as in bursts

a sudden intense expression of strong feeling the audience responded to the comedian's joke with gales of laughter

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Recent Examples of gales The weather in Wales was terrible, with snow and freezing temperatures and Arctic gales. —

Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026 Out in the ferocious gales of the North Sea, on the overcrowded routes of the Irish Sea and the English Channel, and off to the islands’ west, the wide Atlantic herself. —

Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025 Such physical effects of wind are translatable; and so, most important of all, are the quarters from which the blasts or the breezes or the gales appear to come. —

Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025 Fifty years ago this month, the gales of November swallowed the SS Edmund Fitzgerald along with her crew of 29 men, one of the largest ships to go down on Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. —

Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025 The threat of thunderstorms, gales, and violent lightning led to the cancellation of the final day of SailGP competition in Saint-Tropez. —

Andrew Rice, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025 Southern China also shuts down Southern China’s Hainan Island saw heavy rainfall and gales as the typhoon brushed past the island on Sunday. —

Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 25 Aug. 2025 Strong winds were also a concern in areas where residents are accustomed to heavy rain, but not necessarily cyclone-strength gales. —

Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025 The front will have strong north to northeast winds behind it and prompt development of gales offshore of Tampico, Mexico through early Friday morning creating peak seas with 12- to 14-foot waves. —

Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2025

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Upon first spritz, the perfume bursts with caramel, coconut, and vanilla, balanced by fresh citrus to prevent it from becoming saccharine sweet.

— Kiana Murden, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2026
However, during stronger bursts, the aurora could dip farther south, giving states like Oregon, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire a chance to catch a glow low on the northern horizon, per NOAA forecasts.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026