ground swell

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ground swell
Noun
  • The cases amount to a tidal wave of litigation that could ultimately cost San Diego County $100 million or more.
    Jeff Mcdonald, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
  • Before the current pause, the federal court ruling upholding the Congressional ban of TikTok in the U.S. prompted a tidal wave of anxious memes and videos by creators and users fearing the end was near.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • In the batting order for the first time after missing most of the season because of an upper-body injury, Taylor Stephens followed with a slow roller into right field — just soft enough for Bragg to beat the tag at third while Stephens stepped into second.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025
  • This is where hot rollers are sold — or used to be.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Tanks and soldiers with riffles have lined the streets of the Paraguayan capital all week.
    Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Very often, the single word that completes the thought in a Maclean line is the fly that drops perfectly onto the riffle.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • For example, complex analysis is used to manipulate wavelets, or small oscillations in data.
    William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Ground swell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ground%20swell. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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