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Recent Examples of hailstorm
That sense of serenity was shattered Monday when a man stormed the Midtown building with an assault rifle and unleashed a hailstorm of bullets, killing three people in the lobby.
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Holly Yan, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
Colorado homeowners face the growing threat of wildfires, hailstorms, wind and snowstorms.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Transportation officials say that heavy rains in the past two weeks — hailstorms were also one of the biblical plagues — have delayed repair work.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Argentina’s wine industry faced a significant setback in 2023, with production dropping to a six-decade low of 8.8 million hectoliters—a 23% decline from the previous year—due to spring frosts and hailstorms.
—Rachel King, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
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Holly Yan, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
Colorado homeowners face the growing threat of wildfires, hailstorms, wind and snowstorms.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Transportation officials say that heavy rains in the past two weeks — hailstorms were also one of the biblical plagues — have delayed repair work.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Argentina’s wine industry faced a significant setback in 2023, with production dropping to a six-decade low of 8.8 million hectoliters—a 23% decline from the previous year—due to spring frosts and hailstorms.
—Rachel King, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hailstorm
Noun
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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With summer kicking off, the occasional thunderstorm to start the day is inevitable this time of year in Florida.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The food truck’s hot holding unit clearly wasn’t so hot, either, as a summer afternoon rainstorm of Stop Sales came down on oxtails, pork chop, salmon, macaroni and cheese, grits, raw chicken, raw pork, liquid eggs, raw tilapia, salmon salad, sausage and hot dogs.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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The writer finished the trail in 40 days and recounted stories of strangers handing him candy bars through car windows, bar owners delivering him breakfast, a father scooping him up amid a rainstorm and a physical therapist working wonders on his knee at half her hourly rate.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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The plant was closed in 2020, after its cooling towers were damaged during a violent windstorm.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Oct. 2025
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This year, workers will also need to assemble new 15-foot-strands of lights because many were broken during the windstorm that fueled the Eaton fire, Wardlaw said.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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America's population mobility has little equal on the world stage, as people continue seeking more affordable housing, better weather and new job opportunities.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Some weather models hint that rain could reach the metro, but most forecasts still show the bulk of the rain staying farther east.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
3 Nov. 2025
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The whole experience tasted of the sea and the end of summer, punctuated by soft little cloudbursts on the palate.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Rockies’ epic drought ended with a cloudburst of terrific pitching by Tanner Gordon and one of the feel-good moments of the season coming from a most unlikely source.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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However, some spent two months that winter living in the woods and weathering a rare snowstorm.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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Several snowstorms have already impacted the Northern United States this season.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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What started as a clear, sunny climb quickly turned catastrophic as an unexpected blizzard struck – triggering one of the most severe storms ever recorded in the Pyrenees, the mountain spine of southern Europe.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Could a blizzard hit Michigan this winter?—
Brandi D. Addison,
Freep.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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In a sudden forecast turnabout, metro Detroit went from April thundershowers and tornado warnings one day to a warm, sunny day the next, with temperatures in the upcoming week expected to reach the 70s.—
Frank Witsil,
Detroit Free Press,
6 Apr. 2023
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Speaking under dark clouds minutes after a thundershower drenched onlookers, Ms. Truss leaned on the weather as a metaphor for the economic challenges facing Britain.—
Stephen Castle,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2022
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“Hailstorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hailstorm. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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