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ground swell

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Definition of ground swell

as in tidal wave

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Monsanto has faced a tidal wave of litigation in recent years over its Roundup product.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 June 2026
With a population of over 200 million, any news story generates a tidal wave of jokes, many of them very sharp.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 25 June 2026

Definition of tidal wave

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Its roller has 24 water ports that spin at 270 rpm, or nine times per second, to mop your floors up.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026
After 52 years of providing the Inland Empire with mini golf, roller skating and go-karting, Fiesta Village Family Fun Park is shutting down.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

Definition of roller

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The brown trout of a lifetime that just sipped your fly can shoot down a riffle and bust that delicate 6-pound tippet.

— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
Here’s a general guideline of the classification of rapids, according to author I. Herbert Gordon: Class I: Easy, slower water with light riffles.

— Morgan Tilton, Denver Post, 8 June 2025

Definition of riffle

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Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore.

— Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025

Definition of wavelet

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