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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ground swells
tsunami
Noun
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This picture taken by a Miyako City official on March 11, 2011 and released on March 18, 2011 shows a tsunami breeching an embankment and flowing into the city of Miyako in Iwate prefecture shortly after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the region of northern Japan.—
Joe Edwards
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025 -
Around the world, natural disasters—including the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina the following year—have entrenched this concept, whereby crises create a blank sheet ready to be exploited by Big Business.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
5 June 2025
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“Ground swells.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ground%20swells. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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