ground swell

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ground swell
Noun
  • Just as New Orleans has spent the last 20 years on the road to recovery, DRP is working to reckon with Detroit's tidal wave of unjust property tax foreclosures and chart a path toward repair.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • From Anchorage Digital to BitGo and Morgan Stanley, a growing cast of financial firms are reaping big fees riding the tidal wave of corporate bitcoin buying.
    Julie Goldenberg, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The wet and dry cleaner has a self-cleaning roller mop with a 12-point hydration system.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Some sat sunken in the leather roller chairs in front of their lockers.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
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“Ground swell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ground%20swell. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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